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A work made of pieced: 18 fragments of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave.

Seating Mat

Meiji period (1868–1912), 1875/1900

Japan

Japan

Pieced: 18 fragments of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave

Textiles