About This Artwork
Fukusa (Gift Cover)mid-/late Meiji period, c. 1895/1912
Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, plain weave (shioze); stencil resist dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laidwork and couching; Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); painted with India ink (sumi) and paint; stamped; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges
55.5 x 50.5 cm (21 7/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays, 2001.223
Textiles
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, "Fukusa and Furoshiki: Splendid Japanese Gift Covers and Wrapping Cloths," July 17–November 17, 2002
Publication History
“Hidden Meanings." Shelter Chicago. Summer (2002), pp. 53(illus.)–57.
Ownership History
Aquired by Hays: December 2, 1983. Priscilla Miller, Tiburon, Ca.