In the museum catalogue
An image is not available here yet.
View at the museum ↗Art Institute of Chicago
Fukusa (Gift Cover)
Unrecorded artist1912/26, Taishô period (1912–1926)
- Attribution
- Japan
- Medium
- Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, plain weave (shioze); dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); resist dyed and stenciled (yûzenzome: suri yûzenzome); embroidered with silk and wild silk in straight stitches: interlined with cotton, plain weave; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, oblique interlacing over wrapped cotton ball, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels
- Physical dimensions
- 76 × 66.6 cm (39 7/8 × 26 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
CATALOGUE RECORD
Museum metadata is available under CC0. Image availability and rights are separate; consult the source record.
Source rights statement: Public-domain image eligibility not established by this export
View the museum record ↗