Kesa
1801–1850
- Medium
- Pieced and appliqued: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave; hand straps of silk, plain weave; cords: silk, plied, knotted, cut fringe, cotton 2:2 oblique twill interlacing
- Dimensions
- 200.5 × 115.6 cm (79 × 45 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)meijitaishoshowaTextilepaper (fiber product)weaving