Fukusa (Gift Cover)
1801–1900
- Medium
- Pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); lining: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen, hitokoshi); sewn with lining extending beyond front equally along edges of all sides (shihôhi); corners: silk, four-strand square braid; knotted atop open buttonhole filling stitch covered gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper cap; silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, replied fringe tassels
- Dimensions
- 80.7 × 69.9 cm (31 3/4 × 27 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles