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Centuries-old woven fabric with chicken, sheep and lamp patterns

Updated: Feb 28, 2023 www.chinaservicesinfo.com Print
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The silk fabric is in the permanent collection of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum. [Photo/Official Website of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum]

This piece of silk fabric, dating back to the Northern Dynasties (420-589), is roughly rectangular in shape, with a selvedge on one side. On the ground, trees with pedestal-like trunks, tower-shaped branches and lamps, paired chickens and crouching goats are woven with white, red and yellow floss. The fabric is well preserved despite a slightly damaged edge and a small hole.

Excavated from the No. 186 tomb of Astana in Turpan in 1972, the fabric is kept in the permanent collection of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum.

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