Textile Panel from an Obi of tan and orange woven silk with an all-over hand brocade of medallions and various flowers in soft pastel shades of green, mauve, grey-blue, orange, ochre, pink and metallic threads; some geometric designs and broad stripes with rectangular windows; backed on sateen to protect.
Obiage (Obi scarf) of red silk with Shibori tie-dye design of tiny white dots ground with six large floral medallions; ends are plain silk ruffles. The Obiage is used to accessorize an Obi.
Textile Panel created from a hand-woven Samurai's Obi of silk brocade with four-clawed dragons, flower motif, and cloud motif in blues, golds, pinks, yellow, green, ecru, and coral-pink; the motifs are on a ground of stiff brown fabric (maybe gazar) with darker areas that look like mountain motifs or terrain; lined with an warm orange silk damask with delicate crane and flower pattern.
Obiage (Obi scarf) of bright red rayon damask with cranes and stylized designs with Shibori tie-dye in checkerboard motifs; ends are trimmed in bands of Shibori; tied at center.
Textile (portion of towel?) of white silk with faded design of a boat on the water with bushes and grass in front and a sky with birds flying and a sun disc; three green bands go across the boat and two Ikat bands of blue and yellow go across the top.
Textile Panel from an Obi; the ground has bands of green and brown that are connected by an Ikat woven band in white striated lines; the entire Obi is embroidered, and hand-brocaded in various flowers, stems, and leaves in soft, natural shades of grey, yellow, green, brown, white, blue, and purple in untwisted silk floss in a satin stitch; the flowers are the Seven Flowers of Autumn; broken lines of metallic thread are woven in to accent the textile; backed on pale pink sateen.From record: Fragment of a very old Obi featuring the Seven Flowers of Autumn. "Aki NoNanakusa" Seven Flowers of Autumn. During the Heian Period (794-1185), these flowers were common in the gardens of the aristocracy. The flowers are: Hagi, Kazu, Obana, Ominaeshi, Nadeshiko, Asagao, Fujibakama.