Kesa
1875–1925
- Medium
- Kesa strips: silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacing of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; kesa patches: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary pattern wefts; lining: silk, plain weave with ink inscription
- Dimensions
- 114.3 × 206.8 cm (45 × 83 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)meijitaishoTextilepaper (fiber product)weaving