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 1912–1926
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Medium
- Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, plain weave (shioze); dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); resist dyed and stenciled (yûzenzome: suri yûzenzome); embroidered with silk and wild silk in straight stitches: interlined with cotton, plain weave; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, oblique interlacing over wrapped cotton ball, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels
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Dimensions
- 76 × 66.6 cm (39 7/8 × 26 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 2001.232