Fukusa (Gift Cover)
1801–1900
- Medium
- Pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); lining: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen, hitokoshi); sewn with padded lining extending beyond front on all four sides (Yatsuzuma); corners: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, 1:1 tubular oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk wrapped cotton ball, and re-plied fringe tassels
- Dimensions
- 78.1 × 69 cm (30 3/4 × 27 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)meijilate edoedo (japanese period)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweaving