Textile Panel of brown silk with painted designs of various textile fragments in browns, blues, and red, greens; floral designs, ornate oval animals, Middle Age textile designs; looks like metal stamp technique.
Textile panel of finely woven kinran (silk brocaded with gilt paper) in pale olive, gold, white, brown, and green; the design is in horizontal bands of pagodas and pine trees, clouds with cranes, and books with Japanese character writing; the ground is a gold-pale olive with designs woven in and additional added threads to create stripes; top and bottom have stitched fringe. Record says it's from an Obi.
Textile Panel of ochre silk with hand-embroidered flowers in red, off-white, pale green, blue, and metallic gold with stems and leaves in blue and green; some flowers are outlined in contrasting colors; three horizontal maroon yarn stripes are woven into the surface of the fabric; tiny holes are apparent throughout the entire textile where the needlework would be done.
Textile Panel of ribbed fabric with scene of architecture dwellings and trees and water; some of the areas are velvet; the colors are blues, greens, and beige; the center textile is blocked with a bright brown brocade floral frame; looks very old.
Textile panel created from a hand-woven Obi in "kinran" weave (silk brocaded with gilt paper, on overlay of gold on a fine tough mulberry paper) in green, blue, ecru, rust orange, yellow-green with metallic threads; the design is of celestial dragons (5 toed) writhing through varied-colored bands of cloud forms; lined in fine white silk and interlined with printed rice paper.
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.