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CHINESE TEXTILES
EMBROIDERY STITCHES
We find among the Han textile fragments from Central
Asia (discussed on pp. 5-7) a surprising number of
embroidery stitches, indeed most of the stitches which
are known today and which have been the very back-

FIG. 4· DETAIL OF EMPEROR's SACRIFI CIAL ROBE
K'O SSU, WITH A FRET DESIG IN GOLD THREAD
CI-I'IE LUNG PERIOD
bone of European needlework for several centuries.
There are, to be exact, eight different types from this
early period, although several of the stitches appear in
designs which are certainly more Graeco-Scythian and
Scytho-Siberian than Chinese. The Stein textiles show
only one of the eight, namely, the loop, or chain, stitch.
The Kozl6v things, on the other hand, include in addi-

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