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Posted 10 years ago
gleaningz
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Another thrift store special. It looks like a framed silk embroidery with Chinese characters. It's in a 18" x 12" metal frame with glass cover. It looks like silk, but I'm no expert in this. Any ideas? I can provide more photos.
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If it is hand embroidered it is sure to be natural silk. Machine embroidery can be on a polyester silk.
Guess I'd have to look at the back of it to tell?
What do the written symbols mean?
One of the Asian experts may be along in a bit to comment. It is a lovely cloth!
I will post a close up photo of the back, and of the fraying edges, tomorrow. I hope this will help.
it reads "song guan(type of crane) yan(prolong) nian(years)" an auspicious idiom to wish you long life
here is a reading of the symbolism of cranes
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-meaning-of-the-stork.html
more paintings with the same idiom
http://m.wanhuajing.com/d163046