Textile Panel from an Obi of woven deep blue silk satin with an all-over intricate brocaded pattern of Ho-o Bird, Crane, Peacock, Butterfly, and vines and flowers in metallic orange, gold, silver, and grey blue silk.
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.
Tapestry of natural tan woven linen with a painting of several captions set in various architectural settings in colors of green, dark blue, brown, ochre, and red; the captions tell the story of the events of the Norman Conquest of England concerning various leaders/rulers; the writing is in Medieval Latin; fringe at bottom; Bayeux Tapestry design. More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry_tituli
Coverlet of natural wool crepe with embroidery in red, green, and ochre yarn of geometric floral vine patterns including motifs of birds, plants, and trees; embroidered band trims the large rectangular textile with three plant designs at each end; three sections of loomed textiles are sewn together to create the large piece. The designs of this traditional Otomi textile may have been inspired by cave drawings. Typical motifs of Otomi Indians are armadillos, roosters, squirrels, and deer.
Sarape of hand-woven natural wool with varying colorful stripes in an ombre-like effect in colors of red, yellow, sage, lavender, black, orange, and pink; center geometric diamond with stripes and bands of motifs; ends have half inch fringe; the sarape is worn by men like a shawl.
Kimono of plum colored silk satin with large Chinese characters of metallic thread couched onto kimono throughout and surrounding large medallions; medallions have a phoenix at center surrounded by plant-like motifs in knot stitch embroidery in turquoise green, pinks, and ivory outlined in couched metallic thread; neckline opening is trimmed in a band of ivory silk satin with floral vines and phoenix birds in blues, purples, and pinks and couched metallic thread; neckline band in trimmed in a pink ribbon edge; coat is lined in grey-blue cotton; neckline band is trimmed in floral blue damask.
Textile Panel (from an obi) of hand-woven burnt sienna silk brocaded with silver foil over mulberry paper using the Ginran weave; the metallic threads are twisted rather than flat; the pattern is of floral medallions set in octagons and squares in silver on bright brown satin ground; designs are created by inserting metallic threads into the warp of every other row; the pattern is most similar to "Shokkou-mon". Shokkou - the pattern of interconnected squares and octagons symbolizes the region of the upper stream of the Yangtze River in China. This technique of brocade (Ginran) came to Japan from China.