Dancer and Animal Brocade

2020-05-28 08:21:35 source: Jinzhou Museum


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舞人动物纹锦 (Dancer and Animal Brocade)

Jinzhou Museum 


This fabric is unearthed in 1982 from the No.1 Chu Tomb of Mashan in Jiangling, Hubei province. The theme is about dancers and animals. The unit pattern is arranged by slanting rectangles to form a serrated skeleton, and the rectangle is filled with double dragons and geometric patterns. The space outside the rectangle is filled with eight groups of patterns: four pairs of dragons, two pairs of phoenixes, one pair of unicorns, and the most striking is a pair of dancers, wearing a crown and a tail hanging down behind, wearing a robe, tying a belt, waving long sleeves, and dancing gracefully.


There are obvious weaving errors on the left end of the fabric, and the rectangle and tail parts of the fabric are broken. This error was repeated in all pattern cycles, indicating that the error occurred during the pre-weaving of the flower book and could not be corrected during the weaving process. This, on the other hand, proves that in the silk weaving techniques of China at that time, the jacquard device controlled the pattern's repetition in the fabric, but it could not control its zonal circulation, so that the pattern had no zonal circulation in the whole width of the fabric.



(Executive Editor: Ye Ke)

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舞人动物纹锦 (Dancer and Animal Brocade)

Jinzhou Museum 


This fabric is unearthed in 1982 from the No.1 Chu Tomb of Mashan in Jiangling, Hubei province. The theme is about dancers and animals. The unit pattern is arranged by slanting rectangles to form a serrated skeleton, and the rectangle is filled with double dragons and geometric patterns. The space outside the rectangle is filled with eight groups of patterns: four pairs of dragons, two pairs of phoenixes, one pair of unicorns, and the most striking is a pair of dancers, wearing a crown and a tail hanging down behind, wearing a robe, tying a belt, waving long sleeves, and dancing gracefully.


There are obvious weaving errors on the left end of the fabric, and the rectangle and tail parts of the fabric are broken. This error was repeated in all pattern cycles, indicating that the error occurred during the pre-weaving of the flower book and could not be corrected during the weaving process. This, on the other hand, proves that in the silk weaving techniques of China at that time, the jacquard device controlled the pattern's repetition in the fabric, but it could not control its zonal circulation, so that the pattern had no zonal circulation in the whole width of the fabric.



(Executive Editor: Ye Ke)

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