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A work made of border: silk; plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); impressed pattern; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; shiten: silk; plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); impressed pattern; center: cotton, plain weave; lining: cotton, plain weave.

Zagu (Seating Mat)

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

Japan

Japan

Border: silk; plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); impressed pattern; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; shiten: silk; plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen); impressed pattern; center: cotton, plain weave; lining: cotton, plain weave

Textiles