Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)
1900–1920
- Medium
- Silk, cotton, and wild silk, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘S’ twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip-wrapped cotton, paper-padded laidwork and couching
- Dimensions
- 132.8 × 130.9 cm (52 1/4 × 51 1/2 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)meijitaishoritual objectsneedlework (visual works)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanism