Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design of floral units brocaded in colored silk and gold and on a background design of undulating lines in gold. The ground fabric is in plain twill weave; it is tan and at top and bottom changes to brown and orange-red respectively. This change is produced by chine dyeing of the warps and change of color of wefts.
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1943-30-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- woven textiles
- Fragment
- Medium
- Medium: silk, gold foil on silk core Technique: plain twill with supplementary weft
- made in
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1943-30-2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45b168723-4588-42f1-b1e9-900ec92ebf9e
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