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<p>[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 39008, member: 30"]Thank you for posting the detail shots and the sizes. </p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like the "golden brown sienna" base color of both of these is a block print (or silkscreened) base with more colors handpainted on top. I cannot tell how much of the rest is hand painted on top (could be all the rest of the colors), but this print base, along with the size surely puts it in the realm of souvenir. Vietnam is a very likely possibility. Please let us know what your g-search turns up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Armando, I should mention that I deduced it is a print base from the ear of the one on black and from the teeth on the red silk one. Also from the way the fabric was stretched straight in the center to make the print with clarity - see how the cloth "folds around" the back of the tiger on the red silk? --That is what I mean by "stretched" base coat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 39008, member: 30"]Thank you for posting the detail shots and the sizes. It looks like the "golden brown sienna" base color of both of these is a block print (or silkscreened) base with more colors handpainted on top. I cannot tell how much of the rest is hand painted on top (could be all the rest of the colors), but this print base, along with the size surely puts it in the realm of souvenir. Vietnam is a very likely possibility. Please let us know what your g-search turns up. Armando, I should mention that I deduced it is a print base from the ear of the one on black and from the teeth on the red silk one. Also from the way the fabric was stretched straight in the center to make the print with clarity - see how the cloth "folds around" the back of the tiger on the red silk? --That is what I mean by "stretched" base coat.[/QUOTE]
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