Fukusa (Gift Cover)
1801–1825
- Medium
- Mon side: wool, plain weave; fulled (gorfukuren); embroidered with silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in laidwork, couching and paper padded couching; lined (recently) with silk, plain weave; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)
- Dimensions
- 67.7 × 65.8 cm (26 5/8 × 25 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)East Asianlate edoneedlework (visual works)edo (japanese period)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweavingasian