Fukusa (Gift Cover)
1801–1900
- Medium
- Pattern side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, tubular 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; silk-wrapped cotton ball and re-plied silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton fringe tassels
- Dimensions
- 69 × 64.8 cm (27 1/8 × 25 1/2 in.); Tassel: H.: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)meijilate edoneedlework (visual works)edo (japanese period)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweaving