Art Institute of Chicago

Ôhi (Stole)

Japan

Date

late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 1850/90

Medium

Heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: cotton, mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats

Culture

Japan

Department

Textiles

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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