First of all, this quilt is called Tisdarani Quilt. After textual research, it can be basically considered as the shroud quilt used by the Emperor Qianlong. It can be sure that it is a royal article of the Qing Dynasty. This alone makes it valuable.
Then we talk about the material of the craft. Silk has always been one of our specialties. Brocade is the most precious one among silk fabrics, because today it is also handmade, such as Yunjin and Shu Brocade are listed on the national intangible cultural heritage list. And the most complex and cumbersome part of the brocade is the silk reeling process. Throughout the dynasties, the silk reeling products were enjoyed only by the Royal family. Today they are mainly concentrated in the Suzhou generation. If we check the price of modern silk reeling products, the price of real silk reeling production will be absolutely frightening and very expensive, because this work is very expensive. Art is too labor-intensive.
In the Song Dynasty, silk technology was widely used in making silk paintings, which could reproduce the artistic flavor of paintings. In the Qing Dynasty, the technology of combining silk painting with silk painting became more and more exquisite. The size of the Tiedarani Sutra is 2 meters long and 1.38 meters wide. This size is super large in the products. Look at today's products, most of them are fan-oriented, and the price is already very high.
Secondly, its material is not only silk, but also Tibetan antelope cashmere, golden silk and other precious materials. And it is also a very complex double-sided reeling process. Such a huge size and complex two-sided process, if completed entirely by one person, will take more than ten years. It is not surprising that such materials and craftsmen alone, even modern crafts, will sell for millions.