Large red silk tapestry with eight regiments, colorful cloud bat longevity, golden dragon pattern, female cotton dragon robe

[Big Red Kesi Eight Group Colored Cloud Bat Life Golden Dragon Pattern Women’s Cotton Dragon Robe]

Big Red Kesi Eight Group Colored Cloud Bat Life Golden Dragon Pattern Women’s Cotton Dragon Robe, Qing Xianfeng, body length 143.2 cm, sleeve length 198.4 cm, cuff 23 cm, hem 116 cm
This robe is one of the auspicious costumes for empresses in the Qing Dynasty, and is mainly used for major celebrations and other occasions. Its style is a round neck, with a large lapel and a right lapel, horseshoe sleeves, and leaders are all decorated with stone cyan, curved water patterns, and woven with gold edges. The train opens from left to right, and the eight regiments have a water straight body style robe. Large red silk tapestry surface, lined with bright yellow plain spun silk, with thin cotton wadding. Four gold plated flower clasps decorated with copper. Using exquisite tapestry techniques, the patterns of sea water, river teeth, and eight groups of red, double happiness, colored clouds, and golden dragons are woven
Kesi is a weaving process that “cuts through the warp and weft”. Due to its exquisite craftsmanship and painstaking effort, its decorative effects such as calligraphy and painting can achieve high technological appreciation value, and it is known as the “Saint of Weaving”, with the saying of “one inch of Kesi and one inch of gold”. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the process of tapestry continued to develop, and was often used in high-end palace costumes