Mountains, Bats and Clouds

Object Details

Catalogue Status

Research in Progress

Description

This abstract pattern covered with various shapes and decorations. Triangles with a diagonal lattice weave resemble mountains which mingle with a brick wall pattern. Bats, clouds and ivy leaves are carved out of negative spaces, shaped like rhomboids and snowflakes. Japanese kanji is written on the lower half of the stencil.

Credit Line

Gift of Helen Snyder

late 19th–early 20th century

Accession Number

1976-103-198

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

textile designs

Object Name

Katagami

Type

Katagami

Medium

Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu)

made in

Japan

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Record ID

chndm_1976-103-198

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bbeb5061-220d-46d7-9102-4c4a6efcd71a