1920\'s Finely Woven CHINESE KESI Large ART PANEL Like PAINTING River Town Boats

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1920\'s Finely Woven CHINESE KESI Large ART PANEL Like PAINTING River Town Boats:
$649.20

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Artwork - Intricate This scene portraying a Chinese river, boats with people, temples and more was done using the Kesi craft, dating back to the 7th Century, of weaving images onto raw silk. In ancient China, an inch of Kesi was worth the same as an ounce of gold. The reason is that Kesi was particularly labor-intensive and produced extremely delicate images.

This very impressive finely woven Chinese Kesi panel is from the 1920\'s. Framed, and under glass, and has a heavy wood back.. It measures 19\" X 34\". The artwork is in excellent condition.

Delicate Chinese Kesi art piece was made in Suzhou, the center of Kesi tapestry-making since the 7th Century. The number of stitches per inch is so remarkable that we looked up how it’s done. Kesi silk weaving uses raw silk as a warp yarn, and boiled-off silk as a weft yarn. It weaves in blocks according to the outline of the pattern, using a bamboo leaf-shaped shuttle and wooden comb-shaped plectrum. To change a color means changing a shuttle. Kesi doesn\'t run through the whole breadth of the tapestry. The weft is not interlocked between differently colored areas. When the outline (weft) meets the perpendicular (warp), there is a small slit that looks like it was cut using a sharp knife. This slit is part of the \'continuous warp and discontinuous weft\' method.

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1920\'s Finely Woven CHINESE KESI Large ART PANEL Like PAINTING River Town Boats:
$649.20