Textile panel created from a hand-woven Obi in "kinran" weave in green, blue, ecru, rust orange, yellow-green with metallic threads
- Title
- Textile panel created from a hand-woven Obi in "kinran" weave in green, blue, ecru, rust orange, yellow-green with metallic threads
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Description
- Textile panel created from a hand-woven Obi in "kinran" weave (silk brocaded with gilt paper, on overlay of gold on a fine tough mulberry paper) in green, blue, ecru, rust orange, yellow-green with metallic threads; the design is of celestial dragons (5 toed) writhing through varied-colored bands of cloud forms; lined in fine white silk and interlined with printed rice paper.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Dragon Clouds Ho-o bird
- Work Type
- Textile Panel
- Location
- Japan
- Date
- 1701/1800
- Identifier
- 0000.013.001
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Gilt Paper
- Technique
- Brocade Kinran weave
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Record says this is from a Samurai's Obi. It was purchased in Kyoto, Japan in the 1950s. Kinran patterns are made by inserting thin strips of gold covered thread into the warp of every other row. Helen C. Gunsaulus, in her book
