cma-japanese-art: Birds in a Tree, 18, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtThis scene of two Chines
cma-japanese-art: Birds in a Tree, 18, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtThis scene of two Chinese pheasants with a flowering plum tree (a sign of the arrival of spring in Japan) is not painted. All the lines and surfaces are created by colored threads carefully stitched together into the silk. Consequently, the surface appears quite different from the paintings on paper shown nearby.Size: Overall: 169.5 x 47 cm (66 ¾ x 18 ½ in.)Medium: hanging scroll; silk gauze brocaded with gold and silkhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1988.246 -- source link