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.
Tapestry of bright red-orange heavy-weight, ribbed silk with metallic gold emblem of a family crest (Kamon) on one side; the other side has Ikat-like lines of metallic gold on warm beige ground with a partial design of dragons, sun, clouds, and geometric designs in an oval band of fire-like designs; a second emblem of a wrapped pole and a pipe-like emblem with a hole in one side; gold knotted tassels at each of the four corners. This Kamon, family emblem, might be Toyotomi.
Wedding Kimono of ecru silk satin with embroidered floral branches winding up the kimono from the hemline; branches are of dark brown satin stitch with ivory, metallic gold, and dark orange flowers with long green leaves; metallic gold flowers and characters are couched; kimono is lined in pale blue silk embroidered with couched metallic gold branches with green silk leaves and yellow silk flowers in satin stitch; padded hemline; full-length; curved sleeves.
Textile Sampler of linen with fine silk embroidery in figured bands, and fine pulled work; geometric motifs in bright crimson, green, peach, and yellow; cross stitch work; sampler from a Spanish man's convent.
Textile panel from a blouse of woven natural cotton with solid embroidery in red with accents of black in geometric designs and star motifs in bands; design is in a prayer-niche shape.
Scarf or Towel of hand-spun, hand-woven ecru cotton, silk heavily embroidered at each end in squares with eight-pointed within in salmon, tan, brown and white; open-work band at end; finished in attached fringe of black, cerise and gold silk; a zig-zag line on the inner end is trimmed in light green leaf motifs; each end also has three cypress tree motifs outlined in green; cypress motifs have a vessel underneath - sometimes the cypress motif symbolizes the tree of life.
Textile fragment of ribbed and check textured warm reddish-tan silk brocaded in colorful silks and metallic threads in designs of baskets of flowers, leaves, floral and berry motif; colors are reds, green, white, chartreuse, blue and dark brown; probably used for a man's coat.
Textile fragment of ecru and taupe cotton/silk damask brocade in a lively floral design in deep orange and greenish-grey silk; design of stylized flowers and curving leaves with some of the fill of designs having texture; from a man's coat.
One-half length of a hand-woven scarf of multi-colored, horizontally striped silk; warp is magenta and forms a 5 1/2" fringe at the one end; main colors of fuchsia, blue, yellow, olive, cerise and black; stripes vary in width from pin stripe to 1" stripe.