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.
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
Paper cut art of brown paper in a vine with elongated leaves and a check patterned ground; design is constructed of horizontal cuts; paper is backed on cotton fabric covered over cardboard.
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 panel of white cotton with blue watercolor-like print figures in mirror image; looks like reflections in water; design features animals, person pulling a wagon, person on stilts, and dogs.
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.
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.
