Woman's Obi (Sash) Fabric

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Woman's Obi (Sash) Fabric

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 1910–1950

Medium

Silk, rayon, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal foil on paper-strip-wrapped rayon, warp-float faced 2:1 'S' twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts

Dimensions

436.5 × 69.8 cm (171 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.); Repeat: 56.6 × 33.3 cm (22 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. George Voevodsky in memory of Mrs. Edmund A. Russell

Reference Number

2002.187

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