Weaving
Painting
1870-1890 (made)
1870-1890 (made)
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This painting is from an album depicting the silk industry. Silk workers prepared the warp yarns and then mounted them on to a weaving loom. Here you can see the female weaver passing the shuttle back and forth across the warp yarns to create a piece of silk fabric.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Painting, 'Weaving', eleven of sixteen by Wu Jun, watercolours on paper, Guangzhou, 1870-1890 |
| Physical description | Rectangular painting in cool tones depicting a central scene. It is bordered with blue ribbon. Inside a building on the left, a lady uses a loom. Outside a group of figures playing on grass. |
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| Object history | This painting is from an album depicting the silk industry. Warp yarns properly prepared are then mounted on to a weaving loom. The woman worker passes the shuttle back and forth, by which action the weft yarn is carried across the warp yarns. A piece of silk fabric is thus created. One of sixteen paintings from a series numbered D.911 to 926-1901. Each sheet in the album depicting a different stage of the cultivation and manafacture of silk. Purchased from Carl Langweil, accessioned in 1901. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
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| Summary | This painting is from an album depicting the silk industry. Silk workers prepared the warp yarns and then mounted them on to a weaving loom. Here you can see the female weaver passing the shuttle back and forth across the warp yarns to create a piece of silk fabric. |
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| Accession number | D.921-1901 |
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| Record created | September 10, 2002 |
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