Tapestry of green heavy-weight ribbed woven silk with a white medallion emblem and a gold Japanese character
- Title
- Tapestry of green heavy-weight ribbed woven silk with a white medallion emblem and a gold Japanese character
- LC Subject
- textiles (visual works)
- Donor
- Stevens, Blanche Whittier
- Description
- Tapestry of green heavy-weight ribbed woven silk with a white medallion emblem and a gold Japanese character; this is a family crest, called Kamon in Japan; the white emblem is a plant crest called Ume-mon (Japanese crests of plum). The tapestry would be hung in the center so both the Japanese character and the emblem would hang in the correct position.
- Motif
- Emblem Japanese character Family crest Plum motif
- Work Type
- tapestries
- Location
- Japan
- Date
- 1801/1900
- Identifier
- 1954.001.004
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Silk Metallic Threads
- Technique
- Tapestry weave Thumb nail tapestry
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
