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A work made of heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; 
shiten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: cotton, mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats.

Ôhi (Stole)

late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 1850/90

Japan

Japan

Heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: cotton, mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats

Textiles