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A work made of silk, weft-float faced 1:3 broken twill weave with creped wefts and self-patterned by areas of plain weave (paired weft); embroidered with silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk in back stitches, laid work and couching.

Haori

Shôwa period (1926–1989), c. 1930

Japan

Japan

Silk, weft-float faced 1:3 broken twill weave with creped wefts and self-patterned by areas of plain weave (paired weft); embroidered with silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk in back stitches, laid work and couching

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