Beaded Bed Hanging
My favourite piece! It is of beads threaded together (not sewn on a piece of canvas or cloth). The threading technique is now unknown although some people have tried to reproduce it. It is meant to be a bed hanging (for a four-posted wedding bed), although (as the curator pointed out) its weight makes it quite a impractical bed hanging for normal use.
a better sense of the scale of the piece can be seen in this photo (the bed hanging can be seen at the bottom of the photo)
www.flickr.com/photos/taking5/30479077575/in/dateposted-ff/
The latest exhibition at The Peranakan Museum. Till 26 Mar 2017. See peranakanmuseum.org.sg/exhibitions/nyonya-needlework
Beaded Bed Hanging
My favourite piece! It is of beads threaded together (not sewn on a piece of canvas or cloth). The threading technique is now unknown although some people have tried to reproduce it. It is meant to be a bed hanging (for a four-posted wedding bed), although (as the curator pointed out) its weight makes it quite a impractical bed hanging for normal use.
a better sense of the scale of the piece can be seen in this photo (the bed hanging can be seen at the bottom of the photo)
www.flickr.com/photos/taking5/30479077575/in/dateposted-ff/
The latest exhibition at The Peranakan Museum. Till 26 Mar 2017. See peranakanmuseum.org.sg/exhibitions/nyonya-needlework