Textile Panel from an Obi
- Title
- Textile Panel from an Obi
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Description
- Textile Panel from an Obi; the ground has bands of green and brown that are connected by an Ikat woven band in white striated lines; the entire Obi is embroidered, and hand-brocaded in various flowers, stems, and leaves in soft, natural shades of grey, yellow, green, brown, white, blue, and purple in untwisted silk floss in a satin stitch; the flowers are the Seven Flowers of Autumn; broken lines of metallic thread are woven in to accent the textile; backed on pale pink sateen.From record: Fragment of a very old Obi featuring the Seven Flowers of Autumn. "Aki NoNanakusa" Seven Flowers of Autumn. During the Heian Period (794-1185), these flowers were common in the gardens of the aristocracy. The flowers are: Hagi, Kazu, Obana, Ominaeshi, Nadeshiko, Asagao, Fujibakama.
- Provenance
- Department purchase.
- Motif
- Seven Flowers of Autumn
- Work Type
- Textile Panel
- Location
- Japan
- Date
- 1701/1800
- Identifier
- 1933.001.006
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Cotton
- Technique
- Hand-Brocade Embroidered Satin stitch Ikat weave
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
