Fukusa (Gift Cover)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Place

Japan (Object made in:)

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Made 1868–1883

Medium

Mon side: silk, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave (shioze); appliquéd with paper covered wood forms; embroidered with silk, laid threads couched along form edges; lined with silk, plain weave (heiken); sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)

Dimensions

73 × 66 cm (28 3/4 × 26 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

2001.217

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