Hitoe

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Hitoe

Place

Japan (Object made in:)

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Made 1905–1925

Medium

Silk, silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, and black-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in plain interlacings; seam binding: silk, plain weave

Dimensions

167.8 × 125.1 cm (66 1/4 × 49 1/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 61.5 cm (24 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

1999.597

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