Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

· Meiji period (1868–1912), 1870/90

Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)

Silk, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘Z’ twill weave, with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk in laidwork and couching; pieced; lining: silk, plain weave

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

Lindy Arts