Panel from a bed cover (xilankapu)

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Panel from a bed cover (xilankapu)

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Date
late 19th century
Medium
Cotton
Culture
Tujia
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
119337

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Tujia is the sixth largest ethnic minority in China. Tujia women are best known for their heavy, woven bedcovers known as Xilankapu (“bedcover with local flowers”), which were often part of their trousseau. Most Tujia Xilankapu bedcovers are constructed of three woven panels sewn together, usually with matching borders on the top or bottom and occasionally on all four sides. Made of a cotton weave with natural plant dyes, they are often designed in a diamond pattern filled with dense geometric shapes in indigo and other colors. Asia

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Gift of Patricia Brett Erens

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