Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)
1797
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts Lining: Bast fiber, plain weave; inscribed with India ink (sumi)
- Dimensions
- 67 × 67.3 cm (26 3/8 × 26 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)late edoritual objectsTextilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweaving