Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of mon side: silk, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave (shioze); appliquéd with paper covered wood forms; embroidered with silk, laid threads couched along form edges; lined with silk, plain weave (heiken); sewn with front and lining matched in size (tachikiri awase).

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

early Meiji period (1868–1912), 1868/83

Japan

Japan

Mon side: silk, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave (shioze); appliquéd with paper covered wood forms; embroidered with silk, laid threads couched along form edges; lined with silk, plain weave (heiken); sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)

Textiles