Soy colored silk embroidered with peacock feathers and gold python pattern robe material

[Brown colored silk embroidered with peacock feathers and golden python pattern robe material]

Brown colored silk embroidered with peacock feathers and golden python pattern robe material, Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty, 306 cm long and 149 cm wide
This robe is made of brown silk fabric, embroidered with green peacock feathers, with red, yellow, green, blue, and white as the main colors. Nine golden pythons are embroidered with 22 colors of wool, twisted gold thread, and twisted silver thread. The pythons are decorated with patterns such as cloud, bat, crane, dark eight immortals, eight auspicious, peach, and sea water river teeth, which symbolize “longevity”, “eight immortals congratulating longevity”, and “longevity mountain and sea”
This robe material is a treasure of Guangxiu embroidery. It is mainly made of flat gold and carved scale needles using 2-4 halo techniques. It is also made with loose sets of needles, straight ends of needles, neat needles, seeded needles, hair applying needles, set sets of needles, needle binding, rolling needles, joint needles, wheel needles, nail threads, thread binding, mesh embroidery, and high stitch techniques. The colors are bright and the embroidery work is exquisite