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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; patterned side: silk, rayon, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts (gotenori); woven on a loom with a jacquard attachment.

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  • A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; patterned side: silk, rayon, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts (gotenori); woven on a loom with a jacquard attachment.

Date:

early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/40

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

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 1926–1940

Medium

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; Patterned side: silk, rayon, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts (gotenori); woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment

Dimensions

71.3 × 65 cm (28 1/8 × 25 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

2001.236

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