Title

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Japan, late Edo period (1789-1868)/ Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Japan, late Edo period (1789-1868)/ Meiji period (1868-1912), 19th century.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21B28_103

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

25,0Mb (1,4Mb) / 9,7in x 10,0in / 2907 x 3000 (300dpi)

Keywords

female women woman people male man men fish arts country art guy color fishes design weaving Japan Japanese paper gift present location century textiles gallery wrapping fabric sewing NEEDLEWORK silk textile woven art gallery carp Colour aquatic life 19th century nineteenth century Edo period Meiji period object Unknown Art Institute of Chicago art centre Heritage Art Textiles 19th-century Art Institute Chicago sewn with lining extending beyond front equally along edges of all sides (Shihôhi) silk running ?controlling? stitches along all edges Mon side: silk plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen) embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton in laidwork and couching patterned side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton and wrapped silk slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure) corner: silk cords of 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core 1:1 oblique interlaced over silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk replied fringe tassels