"毛主席第七次检阅文化革命大军" (Chairman Mao reviews the great army of the Cultural Revolution for the seventh time), woven silk picture

A black-and-white woven image of three men at a Tiananmen rostrum: Mao in the centre in a cap with a red star, raising a hand, with Zhou Enlai at left and Lin Biao at right each holding up a small red book. A vertical caption calls it Mao's 'seventh review' of the 'great army of the Cultural Revolution'. A press photograph is turned into a loom-made keepsake that keeps the leader at the centre of the frame, flanked by his two highest aides (transfer).

Date: 1966
Period: Cold War
Made by: Hangzhou Dongfanghong (The East Is Red) Silk Weaving Factory, People's Republic of China
Region: East Asia
Country: China
Medium: Object
Issuer type: State
Regime: People's Republic of China
Leader: Mao Zedong
Audience: Mixed
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: Elections and party politics, War and the military
Event: Cultural Revolution
Techniques: Transfer
Regime: People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong
Leader: Mao Zedong
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Etnografiska museet / Världskulturmuseerna (Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm), inv. 1996.20.1206, via Europeana, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: CC BY 4.0 (image, per Europeana record; item record CC0)
Etnografiska museet / Världskulturmuseerna, 1996.20.1206, CC BY 4.0. Woven silk picture, East Is Red Silk Weaving Factory, Hangzhou, collected by Gun Kessle

Text on the object

Original (Chinese (simplified characters)) · read from the image, not independently checked

毛主席第七次检阅文化革命大军

中国杭州东方红丝织厂敬制
27×51公分

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Chairman Mao for the seventh time reviews the great army of the Cultural Revolution.

Respectfully made by the East Is Red Silk Weaving Factory, Hangzhou, China.
27 by 51 cm.

First line is the vertical caption in the right margin; the last two lines are the left margin.