Zagu (Seating Mat)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Zagu (Seating Mat)

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

Border: silk; plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); impressed pattern; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; shiten: silk; plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); impressed pattern; center: cotton, plain weave; lining: cotton, plain weave

Dimensions

117.8 × 79.1 cm (46 3/8 × 31 1/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 7.6 cm (3 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph E. Hays in memory of Mary Van Artsdalen Hays

Reference Number

2004.1040

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