Fukusa (Gift Cover)

· early Meiji period (1868–1912), 1870/80

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Mon side: wool, plain weave; fulled (gorofukuren); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacqueréd-paper-strip wrapped cotton in laidwork, couching and paper padded couching; lined with silk, weft-float faced 4:1 satin weave (shusu); outer edges interlined with paper; sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)

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