About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Nagoya Obi (Formal Belt)
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Place
- Japan (Object made in:)
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Date
- Made 1920–1926
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Medium
- Rayon, plain weave self-patterned by rows of gauze crossings (yoko ro); resist dyed, stenciled and dye extracted through use of chemical discharge dyeing (bassen) (yûzen-zome: utsushinori and hitta shibori); embroidered with cotton, rayon and gold and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk in satin stitches and underside couching; lined with silk and cotton, stripes of warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave and stripes of 3:1 (plain interlacing in alternate alignment) plain weave derived float weave (cannelé alternatif); printed
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Dimensions
- 319 × 30.1 cm (125 5/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 1999.657
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