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A RARE NEEDLELOOP EMBROIDERY PANEL
Ming dynastyThe black silk panel finely embroidered in needleloop technique over gilded paper, to form a scene of two blossoming lotus plants growing from lotus roots with fish and water weeds below, interspersed with birds, butterflies and other flowering aquatic plants, enclosed within a border of scrolling aquatic plants with floral motifs and coins at the corners, open chain stitches and skipped stitches in the embroidery creating geometric patterns allowing the gilded paper to show through. 14 5/8 x 14 3/8in (37.2 x 36.5cm)
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明 黑地刺繡蓮塘圖方屏The needleloop technique utilizes rows of detached buttonhole stitches over gilded paper. The tiny holes that form the geometric patterns are created by skipping stitches within the row, allowing the gilded paper to show through. In the narrow stems, open chain stitches are used to hold the gilded paper in place.A Yuan dynasty needleloop embroidery panel of peonies and butterflies in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York is illustrated by James C.Y. Watt and Anne E. Wardwell, When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian and Chinese Textiles, New York, 1997, no.54, p. 185. A Yuan/early Ming dynasty needleloop embroidery in the Cleveland Museum of Art is illustrated, ibid., no.55, p.187; and a Yuan dynasty panel of tree peonies is illustrated by Francesca Galloway, Textile Splendours of the East, London, 2019, no.8.For a discussion on the origins of the needleloop technique, see Patricia Berger, 'A Stitch in Time: Speculations on the Origin of Neddlelooping' Orientations, August 1989, Vol.20, no.8, pp.45-53.