Art Institute of Chicago

Hanging

Japan

Date

late Edo period (1789–1868)/Meiji period (1868–1912), 1825/1900

Medium

Cotton, plain weave; covered with paper; embroidered with silk, cotton and wild silk, in bullion, satin, single satin, and stem stitches; Chinese knot, laid work and couching; edged with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

Culture

Japan

Department

Textiles

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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