National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

6. A : 12. Iron shears. The limbs cross each
other just above the blades, the spring
thus forming a loop. Rusted. Point of one blade
missing. The cutting edges have been 3.5 cm. long.
L. 9.6 cm. Pl. 16 : 2.

6. A : 13. Iron mirror, circular with central
knob on back. Very rusty. Diam. 8.5
cm. Pl. 16 : 6.

6. A : 14. Roundel of red taffeta covering back
of mirror —: 13. Lined and edged
with buff damask in plain weave and twill, figur-
ed in checks. Along the edge of the damask and
next to the red silk are remains of hammered gold
plate and marks of paste, showing that the gold
lay like small roundels along the edge. Between
the red silk and the damask a layer of thin, white
felt. The edging sewn on with red silk. Diam.
about 8 cm. Pl. 16 : 6 (before removal from mir-
ror).

6. A : 15. Small embossed bronze plate, circular
with two perforations at the edge for
fastening to a garment or suchlike. Diam. 13 mm.
Pl. 17 : 3.

6. A : 16. Wooden spindle whorl on a peg, 26
cm. long, with a small suspension hole
at the upper end. The whorl is nearly hemispheri-
cal. Diam. 3.9 cm. Pl. 16 : 8.

6. A : 17. Doll's shirt of undyed taffeta with
shaped bodice. No seams at the should-
ers, a cut opening and a slit for the neck, also for
the sleeves. The seams turned in, sewn with fine
silk of the same colour as the garment. Marks of
stitches along all open edges. L. 12.5 cm. Pl. 17 : 4.

6. A : 18. Doll's jacket of same silk as —: 17,
with shaped bodice. The lower part
missing. Sleeves of kimono shape, sewn on with-
out hem at the wrists. One sleeve torn off. All
seams turned in, sewn with fine untwined silk in
the garment's colour. L. of compl. sleeve 4.7 cm.
Pl. 17 : 1.

6. A : 19. Doll's trousers of undyed silk rep
somewhat coarser than —: 17—18.
Each leg made of folded piece with selvage at the
bottom, and the seams turned in towards the middle
and the fork. Sewn with silk. L. of legs about 5.5
cm. Pl. 17 : 2.

6. A : 20. Doll's coat of same silk as shirt and
jacket. The front open; the upper part
is of kimono shape with sleeves sewn on. The left
sleeve missing. The lower part, sewn on around
the waist, has inserted gores, slightly broadened
towards the bottom. Round the neck a strip of red
silk rep, 1.2 cm. wide, is sewn on. At the lower part
of the coat, from the bodice to the bottom edge,

folded strips of yellowish-brown taffeta, about 1.8
cm. wide, are sewn on. L. of coat with collar, along
the middle of the back 14.5 cm. W. of shoulders
10.5 cm. Pl. 17 : 5.

G r a v e 6 B.

6. B : 1. Back of a man's coat of silk taffeta,
discoloured to brown, probably undyed,
partly fragmentary. Shaped around the waist and
with two gores in the side seam under the right
sleeve. A portion of the sleeve remaining. The up-
per part has an open slit on the right side edged
with brown silk taffeta. On the left side a small
fragm. of brown silk. Fastened to the neck is a
fragm. of the collar, consisting of a strip of un-
dyed taffeta, edged with a narrower strip of brown
silk.

6. B : 2. Back of a coat of cotton fabric in
plain weave, partly fragmentary. The
shape is rather similar to —: 1. Brown remnants
of silk taffeta at neck, slit and lower edge. Gore
at right arm. Slit indistinct. The fabric partly in
good condition, white.

6. B : 3. Portion of trousers of undyed silk taf-
feta. Two pieces with a seam in the
middle, and part of the fork sewn on to them.

6. B : 4. Several remnants of undyed silk taf-
feta.

6. B : 5. Silk ribbon, figured warp-rib, divided
lengthwise into three; the middle part
has had a red and white pattern, probably the same
lion-pattern as on the ribbon on the shirt 6. A : 2
(Cf. Pl. 16 : 1). Preserved L. 32 cm. W. 3.4 cm.

6. B : 6. Silk ribbon, figured warp-rib, with
checks in red and white. 11.5×2.3 cm.
Pl. 18 : 2.

6. B : 7. Two small pieces of figured silk, warp-
rib in blue, buff and red (?) In the
close, indefinable pattern a Chinese character.
They have been sewn on to undyed silk.

6. B : 8. Fragm. of thick mantle or blanket of
light brown and somewhat mixed
brown coarse animal's hair of the same quality.
Woven in 4-leafed twill over two and under two
warps. Warp: invisible mixed brown yarn, th. 2
mm; about 40 threads to 10 cm. Weft: th. 2—3
mm; 70 threads to 10 cm. Selvage at one side, 1.5
cm. wide with five warp-threads over which the
wefts are laid in loops.

Dark-brown stripes, 2.5—3.2 cm wide, arranged
in pairs. The broader light space between the
striped parts is 2.4—9.2 cm; the narrower light
space within each part respectively 2.5 and 3.7 cm.
Pl. 27 : 11.

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