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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome) and painted with india ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, couching; patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and otoshizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton in satin stitches; couching; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton; oblique interlaced, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels.

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  • A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome) and painted with india ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, couching; patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and otoshizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton in satin stitches; couching; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton; oblique interlaced, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels.

Date:

1912/26, Taishô period (1912–1926)

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Place

Japan (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1912–1926

Medium

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome) and painted with India ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, couching; Patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and otoshizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton in satin stitches; couching; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton; oblique interlaced, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels

Dimensions

53 × 48.9 cm (20 7/8 × 19 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

2001.235

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