Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

Art Institute of Chicago

Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

Japan

Date
Meiji period (1868–1912), 1870/90
Medium
Silk, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘Z’ twill weave, with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; pieced; lining: silk, plain weave
Culture
Japan
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

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Object type
AAT300312158

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