About This Artwork

Japan

Dyer’s Sample, Meiji period (1868–1912), 1870/1900

Silk, plain weave; resist dyed and painted (yuzenzome); embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk in Chinese knot and single satin stitches, laidwork, couching and paper-padded couching
28.4 x 33.7 cm (11 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays, 2004.1094