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Fukusa (Gift Cover)
Unrecorded artist1912/26, Taishô period (1912–1926)
- Attribution
- Japan
- Medium
- Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, plain weave self-patterned by bands of gauze crossings (yoko ro); stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: hikizome); Patterned side: silk, plain weave self-patterned by bands of gauze crossings (yoko ro); stenciled and resist dyed, (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome) painted with India ink (sumi) and dye; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped silk in Chinese knot, satin, stem and straight stitches; laidwork and couching; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: silk, knotted, re-plied fringe tassels
- Physical dimensions
- 78 × 66.7 cm (30 3/4 × 26 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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