Image: Ming flower brocade (cropped)2

Description: RH3571, Textile Fragment. 27 x 29.5 in (69 x 75 cm). 14th/17th Century. Published in Threads of Imagination, Spink Catalog 1999, pl 16. A panel of silk brocade, woven with a hexagonal lattice enclosing pink, white, and yellow flowers including peonies and lotus, woven with a gilt outline against a sea-green ground. Ming Dynasty. $6,000. Ming brocades were sought after the world over, their eye-pleasing patterns making their way to the viceroyalties of Mexico and Peru, India, Turkey, western Europe and Japan where they influenced local weaving motifs and techniques (RH3571, RH3570).
Title: Ming flower brocade (cropped)2
Credit: http://www.hali.com/news/hollander-collection-chinese-central-asian-silk-textiles-online-exhibition-sale/
Author: Unknown Chinese weaver. Photo by gallery.
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