Fukusa (Gift Cover)
1801–1900
- Medium
- Pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquer-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
- 75.6 × 66.7 cm (29 3/4 × 26 1/4 in.); Tassel: H.: 12.3 cm (4 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)meijilate edoneedlework (visual works)edo (japanese period)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweaving