Fukusa (Gift Cover)
1870–1880
- Medium
- Mon side: wool, plain weave; fulled (gorofukuren); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacqueréd-paper-strip wrapped cotton in laidwork, couching and paper padded couching; lined with silk, weft-float faced 4:1 satin weave (shusu); outer edges interlined with paper; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)
- Dimensions
- 69.1 × 66.3 cm (27 1/4 × 26 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)meijiEast Asianneedlework (visual works)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweavingasian