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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, slit and single interlocking weave (tsuzure); decorative side: silk and gold-leaf-over lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, slit an dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure).
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  • A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, slit and single interlocking weave (tsuzure); decorative side: silk and gold-leaf-over lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, slit an dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure).

Date:

Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1912

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Place

Japan (Object made in)

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Made 1902–1922

Medium

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, slit and single interlocking weave (tsuzure); Decorative side: silk and gold-leaf-over lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, slit an dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure)

Dimensions

72 × 67.1 cm (28 3/8 × 26 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

2001.227

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