Art Institute of Chicago

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Unrecorded artist

early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/40

Attribution

Japan

Medium

Mon side: silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip- wrapped silk in Chinese knots, laidwork and couching; patterned side: silk, satin weave self-patterned by areas of twill interlacings and areas of plain interlacings; woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment; sewn with front and lining matched in size; three corner: rayon, knotted, re-plied fringe tassels

Physical dimensions

37.2 × 34.2 cm (14 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays