Obi (Belt)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Obi (Belt)

Place

Japan (Object made in:)

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Made 1901–1925

Medium

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; interlining: silk fiber over cotton, plain weave

Dimensions

425.3 × 33.5 cm (167 3/8 × 13 1/8 in.); Repeat: 19.2 × 8.5 cm (7 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne

Reference Number

2002.197

Extended information about this artwork

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