About this artwork
This kimono displays a pattern within a pattern. The combination of vertical stripes with columns of horizontal stepped stripes (dan shimekiri) forms the crisscrosses of an igeta (well-frame) motif. Stripes and igeta motifs are traditional patterns often created using kasuri (ikat) techniques.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Kimono
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Place
- Japan (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1920–1940
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Medium
- Silk, warp resist-dyed (kasuri) plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave and silk, plain weave
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Dimensions
- 145 × 121.3 cm (57 1/8 × 47 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 1999.613