Title
Cardboard
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 13.2 x 8.5 cm,
Object size: 8.5 x 13.3 x 0.1 cm
Object size: 8.5 x 13.3 x 0.1 cm
Accession No.
2025-01235
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the late Mr Yeo Cheng Kim and Madam Koh Quee Neo
This is a piece of cardboard for wounding silk floss threads. Silk floss threads are made of long filaments reeled from an unbroken silkworm cocoon, which yields lustrous, smooth and fine strands. Silk floss was mostly used in Nyonya embroidery.