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 Cover of grey cotton muslin with a design of bamboo in a natural white with darker grey edge using Rokechi dyeing technique; natural white line trims the edge of the square textile. Made by Y. Inoue, an 11th grade student at The Aichi Prefectural Toyohashi/ Higashi upper secondary school.
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 tan cotton and paper with faint white stripes with roller print design in soft colors of blue, green, bright brown, dark brown, and tan of diagonal bands of small Japanese figures in varying activities separated by tiny lines of Japanese writing; designs alternate in reverse; top and bottom have fringe.
Textile Panel of hand-blocked pale brown cotton print with diagonal bands of consecutive squares in red, blue, turquoise, and golden brown with dark brown outline; over the background pattern are large black Japanese characters with red outline in a painterly style.
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.