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A work made of silk, satin weave (shusu); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in individual back, bullion, chain, eyelet, fern, herring bone, open fishbone, single satin, satin, silk-padded satin; surface satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; lined.

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1825

Japan

Japan

Silk, satin weave (shusu); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in individual back, bullion, chain, eyelet, fern, herring bone, open fishbone, single satin, satin, silk-padded satin; surface satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; lined

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