Fukusa (Gift Cover)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Place

Japan (Object made in)

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Made 1895–1912

Medium

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

Dimensions

55.5 × 50.5 cm (21 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

2001.223

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