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 1900–1926
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Medium
- Patterned side: silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with self-patterning ground wefts; embroidered with silk, silver-leaf- over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk and wrapped cotton in Chinese knots, satin, paper-wrapped cotton padded satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; lined with silk, plain weave with "crepe-like" wefts (kabe-ito wefts) (kabe-ori or kabe chirimen); (possibly dyed with safflower (benibana); sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachidkiri awase)
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Dimensions
- 70.7 × 65.3 cm (27 7/8 × 25 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 2001.226
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