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Art Institute of Chicago

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Unrecorded artist

1926/29, early Shôwa period (1926–1989)

Attribution
Japan
Medium
Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, warp resist dyed plain weave; Patterned side: silk, wild silk, rayon, cotton and gold- and silver-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound by main warps in weft-float faced 1:3 "s" twill and plain interlacings mounted to paper; inscribed with ink; attached tying tapes of cotton, 2:2 oblique twill interlacing; both selvages present
Physical dimensions
72.8 × 68.5 cm (28 5/8 × 27 in.)
Credit line
Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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