英文摘要 |
This case study deals with a piece of gold brocade lined with hand-made paper and used as a mounting textile for historic Chinese paintings. The gold brocade is decorated with a windingbranch gourd pattern against a background of brown color. The ground and the gold-patterns are interconnected in a structure of one warp and two wefts (blue wefts and gold weft threads). The woven structure of the ground is identified as a warp-faced five-shaft satin with brown warps and flossy blue wefts. The flat strips of gold threads were applied as continuous supplementary wefts, woven into the design in the mode of 1/4 twill compound weave. According to fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and the combustion method for textile fiber analysis, both the ground warp and weft are made of silk. In addition, results of energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), the primary material of the gilded weft is gold. Both scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and FTIR examination show the paper lining on the back of the gold strip to be made of ramie fiber. |