Textile fragment from a rug of red, green, black and beige cut wool with brushed out fringe; pattern of pinwheels with tiny floral motifs in a black open-diamond.
Textile of red, orange, lavender, pale chartreuse and black hand-spun, woven goat hair solid embroidery on heavy woven cotton or linen; design of stripes alternating with figured, geometric bands.
Set of 8 traditional towels (Tenuqui) of very fine plain woven ivory cotton with stencil print in shades of blue with slight varying designs of flowers, birds, bamboo, and water; ends are sewn; sides are unfinished. Popular during the Edo Period (1603 to 1868). Chusen Tenuqui - print method.
Textile panel from an Obi of beige, browns, ecru, and grey-blue silk brocade in detailed repeat pattern of plants, flowers, squares, and other designs; muted shades; intricate lines in designs.
Textile panel (probably from an obi) of ecru silk damask with a pattern of masks overlapping in S-curves through the length of the textile; some of the masks have been hand-brocaded in metallic threads and black and red silk; masks face in opposite directions from the center suggesting this is a portion of an obi.
Table Scarf of brocaded satin in grey, brown, orange, lavender, pale green and white in a scene of the Nikko Temple, a famous shrine in Japan, with trees in the background; needlework fringe trim all four sides of the small square textile.
Textile Panel (part of sleeve) of light blue taffeta brocaded with stripes of dashes of white and shaded dashes in red fading to yellow; vine with tiny roses at center; patterned stripes in green, reds, pinks.
Wall Hanging (made from half of a shawl) of fine ivory silk brocaded with black silk or cotton in a lace-like design of vines with leaves and pomegranates; edges are trimmed in 3/4" fringed braid of black silk.
Towel of hand-spun, hand-woven linen with blue and red laid-in weaving; 7" border design at each end and five separate motifs decorate the length of the towel on each side; typical Cretan pattern and colors.
Tapestry hanging of hand-woven off-white silk with a landscape pattern with trees, gazebo, and mountains in grey-greens, blues, browns, and grey with black and gilded gold outline; fringe at top. The Kesi weaving technique came to Japan from China in the 1400's. The Chinese used shuttles of separate bobbins of threads to weave the designs. The Japanese used their fingernails to weave, sometimes they would serrate the edges of their nails to aide the process. The Japanese called the technique tsuzure-ori "nail weaving" or fingernail weave. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%27o-ssu
