A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome) and painted with india ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, couching; patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and otoshizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton in satin stitches; couching; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton; oblique interlaced, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels.

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

1912/26, Taishô period (1912–1926)

Japan

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome) and painted with India ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton, couching; Patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and otoshizome); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip wrapped cotton in satin stitches; couching; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corner: gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton; oblique interlaced, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels

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