Fukusa (Gift Cover)

· late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

Pattern side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, tubular 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; silk-wrapped cotton ball and re-plied silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton fringe tassels

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

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