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 1890–1912
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Medium
- Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome); embroidered with silk and gold- leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); stenciled (yûzenzome; suri yûzenzome and bokashizome) and painted with India ink (sumi) and gold; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper- strip-wrapped silk in single back and satin stitches, laidwork and couching Silk running "controlling " stitches along all edges Corners: gold-leaf-over lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton knotted, re-piled tassels
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Dimensions
- 77.4 × 66 cm (31 1/2 × 26 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 2001.225
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/157677/manifest.json
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