About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Fukusa (Gift Cover)
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Place
- Japan (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1890–1900
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Medium
- Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); dye extracted though a discharge dyeing technique and chemical dye stripper (bassen) and painted with India ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laidwork and couching; lined with silk, ink and stamped with ink; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase); silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corners: gold-leaf-over-lacquered- paper-strip-wrapped cotton, knotted and replied fringe tassels
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Dimensions
- 76.8 × 66.1 cm (30 1/4 × 26 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 2001.222
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/157674/manifest.json