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Seating Mat

A work made of pieced: 18 fragments of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave.
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  • A work made of pieced: 18 fragments of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave.

Date:

Meiji period (1868–1912), 1875/1900

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Seating Mat

Place

Japan

Date

Made 1875–1900

Medium

Pieced: 18 fragments of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave

Dimensions

41.7 × 93.7 cm (16 3/8 × 36 7/8 in.); Pattern repeat: 13.1 × 11.6 cm (5 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Charles C. Haffner Jr.

Reference Number

2002.624

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