Woman's Obi (Sash) Fabric

Textiles

Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1940–58

Japan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Woman's Obi (Sash) Fabric
Place: Japan (Object made in)
Date: Made 1940–1958
Medium: Silk, rayon, and gold-leaf-over-paper-wrapped rayon, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with plain interlacings of supplementary patterning wefts, self-patterning ground wefts, and secondary binding warps; upper cover: cotton, plain weave; glazed
Dimensions: 234.3 × 70.5 cm (171 × 27 3/4 in.); Repeat: 49.8 × 33 cm (19 5/8 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Hopkins
Reference Number: 1958.383

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Fabricating Fashion, Aug. 20, 2022–Jan. 2, 2023, no. cat.

Mrs. Albert L. Hopkins, Chicago, by June 1958 [incoming permanet receipt RX2563, June 18, 1958; copy in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958.

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