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Nagoya Obi (Formal Belt)

A work made of silk and rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground weft floats; interlinging: cotton, plain weave.

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  • A work made of silk and rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground weft floats; interlinging: cotton, plain weave.

Date:

late Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1925

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Nagoya Obi (Formal Belt)

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 1915–1935

Medium

Silk and rayon, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground weft floats; interlinging: cotton, plain weave

Dimensions

346.7 × 23.5 cm (136 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

1999.655

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