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A work made of silk, satin weave (shusu); embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk and wrapped cotton and silk in individual back, knot, satin, single satin, silk and paper-padded satin, surface paper-wrapped-cotton, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; lined; tasseled.

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

1901/25, late Edo period (1789–1868)

Japan

Japan

Silk, satin weave (shusu); embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk and wrapped cotton and silk in individual back, knot, satin, single satin, silk and paper-padded satin, surface paper-wrapped-cotton, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching; lined; tasseled

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