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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Liang Kai Creator Qualifier: Attributed to Creator Nationality: Chinese Creator Role: Artist Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Liang Kai Title: Sericulture (The Process of Making Silk) Title Type: Primary View: Detail Creation Start Date: 1200 Creation End Date: 1225 Creation Date: early 13th century Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: Painting Materials and Techniques: handscroll, ink and color on silk Dimensions: Third Section: 27.3cm x 93.5cm, Second Section: 27.5cm x 92.2cm, First Section: 26.5cm x 92.2cm Inscriptions: 3 colophons and 7 seals of Ch'eng Ch'i (20th c.). AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1977.5 Credit Line: John L. Severance Collection Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html Style or Period: China, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279) Context: Viewed from right to left, this handscroll illustrates stages in the production of silk, from the raising of silkworms to the weaving of silk cloth. The artist, Liang Kai, was painter-in-attendance from about 1201 to 1204 at the Painting Academy of Hangzhou.Section 1 (right): Women prepare silkworm eggs, placing them on trays that are stored vertically on a frame.Section 2 (center): In the house at the right, the silkworms are placed on trays together with mulberry leaves upon which they feed. The trays are then placed one above the other on a frame. In the top center section, spinning frames for the silkworms are being prepared. While one man ties bundles of twigs, others arrange the bundles on mats supported on frames. Eventually, the worms will be placed among the twigs to spin cocoons. At the left, cocoons are being placed in baskets. In the lower center section is a large jar fitted with a reed lid. It may have been used for damping cocoons-sealing cocoons in a jar with salt in order to kill the worms before they eat their way out of the cocoons.Section 3 (left): Four scenes are represented. Starting on the right, cocoons are being weighed while a child and three adults working at a table sort cocoons and place them in baskets. In the next scene, some cocoons have been placed in water heated by a fire to loosen the ends of the filaments. The man seated on a bench in front of a silk-reeling machine picks up several filaments to form a thread that is being wound on the reel. The third scene shows the process of spooling. Skeins of silk formed on the reel of the silk-reeling machine are stretched onto a wooden frame and then rewound onto small reels. The final scene, on the left, shows silk being woven. AMICA ID: CMA_.1977.5 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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