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A work made of woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); mon side: silk, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; patterned side: silk, rayon, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts (gotenori); woven on a loom with a jacquard attachment.

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

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

Japan

Japan

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; Patterned side: silk, rayon, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts (gotenori); woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment

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