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    Posted 9 years ago

    gleaningz
    (4 items)

    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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    1. racer4four racer4four, 9 years ago
      If it is hand embroidered it is sure to be natural silk. Machine embroidery can be on a polyester silk.
    2. gleaningz, 9 years ago
      Guess I'd have to look at the back of it to tell?
    3. gleaningz, 9 years ago
      What do the written symbols mean?
    4. katherinescollections katherinescollections, 9 years ago
      One of the Asian experts may be along in a bit to comment. It is a lovely cloth!
    5. gleaningz, 9 years ago
      I will post a close up photo of the back, and of the fraying edges, tomorrow. I hope this will help.
    6. fleafinder fleafinder, 7 years ago
      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

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