Art Institute of Chicago
Kosode
Japan
- Date
- late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'Z' twill interlacings; lined with silk, plain weave, creped wefts, dyed with safflower
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300014063
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