Dyeing
1880
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1880
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Dyeing is a 1880 paint by Jun Wu, a Chinese Orthodox School work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows silk threads hanging in bright blue dye. The threads look heavy and wet, and the blue pools at the bottom. Wu Jun painted this as part of an album about silk making. He shows how dye was heated in big pots before threads were dipped in. The colors look fresh even today. Check out Wu Jun’s other silk paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Rectangular painting in cool tones bordered with a blue ribbon. A central scene shows figures working with racks that hold rings of white silk. The work depicts the process of dyeing silk yarns before weaving, including dye selection, mixing, heating, immersion, and drying. It is one of sixteen paintings in an album illustrating stages of silk production, numbered D.911 to D.926-1901 and acquired from Carl Langweil in 1901.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Jun Wu’s paintings show women tending silkworms and preparing silk in the late 1800s.
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