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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 knot, satin, single satin, surface satin and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; relined.

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Edo period (1615–1868), 1775/1800

Japan

Japan

Silk, satin weave (shusu); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton in knot, satin, single satin, surface satin and stem stitches; laidwork and couching; relined

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