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A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'z' twill weave with weft-float-faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; interlining: cotton, plain weave; padding: silk fibers, felted.

Fragment (Maru Obi) (Formal Obi)

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

Japan

Japan

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float-faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; interlining: cotton, plain weave; padding: silk fibers, felted

Textiles