Tea Cloth of very fine abaca fiber with a woven design in mirror image of a palm tree, an architectural dwelling, plants, and an animal (cow) in yellow silk or rayon floss; edges have a stitched scalloped trim.
Apron of floral print cotton in shades of pinks, whites, and purples; skirt is pleated into a waistband of self-fabric that ties in back; floral print has a painterly effect.
Textile panel of ivory cotton with green pattern of crest-like images of birds, lions, bucks, plants, flowers, and grapes; delicate design fills the negative space in soft ovals shapes.
Textile Panel of natural cotton with print of bundled flowers in dark pink and maroon on a varied polka-dot ground; borders at top and bottom of deep yellow and maroon floral leaf pattern with fern leaves and stippling shading.
Textile yardage of rust, browns, white, black, and taupe woven fabric with 3" bands with layered floral patterns; bands loop around like a simple ribbon and are on rust colored ground with skeletal leaf patterns.
Obi of dark orange ribbed rayon silk with sections of metallic gold and deep green rayon silk in a zig-zag pattern brocaded with floral designs in pale blue turquoise outline and filled with silver metallic blending into gold metallic with accents of dark orange; large floral designs are of a motif from the Paulownia tree; traditional woman's obi. The floral motif is based on a tree from a family crest, the Toyotomi family - a Samurai crest. Kiri mon is a sacred tree where the phoenix rests, and is valued. The tree is the Paulownia tree, also known as the Royal Empress Tree.
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
Scarf of hand-woven lavender cotton with stripes of black, red, yellow with a blue warp; 3" fringe at each end; weaving has a ribbed quality; center band of lavender and black checker pattern. Record says: Hand-woven country cloth.