Fragment (Maru Obi) (Formal Obi)

Textiles

early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/40

Japan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Fragment (Maru Obi) (Formal Obi)
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 1926–1940
Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float-faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; interlining: cotton, plain weave; padding: silk fibers, felted
Dimensions: 201.9 × 33.4 cm (79 1/2 × 13 1/8 in.); Pattern repeat: 33.2 × 17.2 cm (13 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
Reference Number: 1999.658

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