佩文耕織圖 [Pei Wen Pictures of Tilling and Weaving]
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A Chinese woodblock-printed album of the Pei wen Gengzhi tu (Imperially Commissioned Pictures of Tilling and Weaving), reproduced from a photocopy. It opens with an imperial preface and then gives paired illustrations and poems: 23 plates on rice cultivation, from soaking seed through plowing, transplanting, harvest and the thanksgiving to the gods, and 23 plates on sericulture and silk weaving. The silk plates cover bathing silkworm eggs, the molts, mulberry picking, mounting cocoons, reeling, warping, weaving, dyeing and tailoring. Each plate has a poem by the Yongzheng emperor, a matching poem by the Kangxi emperor, and a decorative border or a hand-copied poem. The text is entirely in Chinese.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1696
- Language
- Chinese
- Pages
- 99
- Archive notes
- scanned from photocopy
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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