Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
"The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
01:11.021B.014 |
Description |
"The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment" Image 14 "Represent the successive operations of dressing the Grass fibers - No. 15 &16 represent particularly the separation of the fine and coarse fibers which are put up in separate bundles. All these operations are done exclusively by the hand, in general by females, but sometimes by men who in the first process of separating the "boon" from the "harl" use a kind if knife. There appears to be no process, prior to the separation of the fibrous from the woody part, corresponding to the "retting" to which European flax is subjected. In No. 15 the fibres are exposed to the sun but after the different qualities have been separated and the bundles made up & stored there is nothing further done until immediately preparatory to making the yarn. The Grass is then subjected to the operation represented in Drawing." |
Date |
1820s |
Dimensions |
H-13.5 W-9 inches |
Material |
Pith Paper, Watercolor |
Medium |
Watercolor |
Collection |
Edelstein Collection |
Digital Collections Link |
https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/p1z2yov |
Search Terms |
Art, Chinese Handmade Paper Nineteenth Centry Pith Paper Ramie Textile Art Textile Fabrics Watercolor Painting |
Provenance |
This five volume, brocade-bound set of 60 Chinese watercolor paintings was collected by Sidney and Mildred Edelstein. The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection is accompanied by a transcription of hand-written text, describing the steps in Ramie cloth production. |