Art Institute of Chicago

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Japan

Date

Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1912

Medium

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper- strip wrapped silk, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure); Patterned side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure; corner; gold-metallized probably polyester-film wrapped rayon, oblique interlacing; knotted and re-plied fringe tassels

Culture

Japan

Department

Textiles

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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