✓ Jacquard-woven cotton · ✓ Soft & reversible · ✓ Made to order for you
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This square insignia, known as a buzi or mandarin square, once marked its wearer's rank within the vast civil or military bureaucracy of Ming or Qing dynasty China. Sewn to the front and back of an official's formal robe, such badges used a codified system of birds for civil officials and animals for military officers, with nine grades in each hierarchy. Rank badges survive today both as historical documents of imperial administration and as accomplished examples of Chinese textile art.
Jacquard-woven both sides in soft, durable yarn; insert included.
