Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

· late Edo period (1789–1868), 1797

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts Lining: Bast fiber, plain weave; inscribed with India ink (sumi)

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

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