Notes on the Weaves of a Group of Silk Fabrics from the Burial Mounds of Noin-Ula Now in the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Article by Eleanor B. Sachs, compiled from notes by Nancy Andrews Reath, on the weave structures of Han Dynasty silks from the Noin-Ula burial mounds in the Pennsylvania Museum of Art. It explains the complex warp-faced compound cloth weave, with several colored warps, a main weft and a hidden secondary weft, which is the same technique as the Lou-lan silks found by Stein. It also describes a fine fancy gauze weave. Technical analyses of two examples give materials, colors, thread counts and sizes, and a diagram (Fig. 1) shows the layered structure.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1936
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 5
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