Dragon Scale Grid — Jiangnan Figured Homespun
Mid-20th century · Handspun cotton
A wine-red and natural-white figured cloth whose raised linked cells are catalogued as a dragon-scale grid, giving the surface a dense, tactile relief.
Atlas · Pattern
Dragon-scale grid
Linked scale-like units catalogued as dragon-scale patterning; folk readings connect the motif with strength, protection and blessing.
1 documented object
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