About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Katagawa Obi (Side Patterned Belt)
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Place
- Japan (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1904–1924
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Medium
- a: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-dyed (kasuri) plain weave with creped wefts and with supplementary brocading wefts (chirimen nuitori) bound by main warp in weft float faced 1:5 'S'twill interlacings b: Silk, wild silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, warp-stripe plain weave with paired wefts and strips of 3:1 interlacing in alternation with supplementary brocading wefts bound by main warps in plain interlacings
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Dimensions
- a: 366.7 × 40.3 cm (144 3/8 × 15 7/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 39.3 cm (15 1/2 in.); b: 360.2 × 33 cm (141 3/4 × 13 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 1999.659a-b
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