Rectangular Silk Panel, Possibly from a Banner, with a Buddhist Mantra Reading "Om mani padme hum"

Silk with metallic yarns filé and lamé, pearls and jewels

Textile fibers

Silk on linen

Warps: undyed white cotton, 2 Z spun S plied. 34 warps per decimeter. Wefts: wool, Z spun; varied pairs and singles per shot. Extremely eccentric wefts, supplementary wefts for broceaded ornaments. Weft color: blue (heavily abrashed), red (heavily abrashed), green (probably indigo sulfonic, heavily abrashed), yellow, undyed white, light purply brown, corrosive brown, genuine purple/aubergine. Both selvedges: return wefting. Top and bottom: between 8 and 11 warps in a knotted fringe.