A work made of silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with bands of 1:1 plain gauze weave with weft-float faced 1:3 's' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts.

Fragment (From an Obi)

Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)/ Shôwa period (1926–1989)/ Heisei period (1989–present), 20th century

Japan

Japan

Silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with bands of 1:1 plain gauze weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts

Textiles