Sericulture (The Process of Making Silk)
A handscroll painting in ink and color on silk shows timber buildings with tiled roofs, seen from above, with small figures moving through courtyards, open rooms and under trees. A column of calligraphy runs along the left end of the scroll.
Look closer: Small figures at work inside the open rooms of the buildings at the upper right.
- Artist
- Liang Kai
- Date
- early 1200s
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3400 × 299 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1299).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Collection