JAPANESE GOLD GAUZE

Vegetable-dyed, handspun cotton with stenciled paste-resist decoration

Ramie with vegetable dyes and mineral pigments; stenciled and freehand paste-resist decoration applied on both sides of fabric

Resist-dyed silk damask ground detailed with stenciling and with decoration embroidered in dyed silk threads and gilt-paper-wrapped threads

Multicolored ikat-dyed silk with patterning in supplementary gold wefts; floral motifs embroidered with polychrome silk threads

Ramie with vegetable dyes and mineral pigments; stenciled and free-hand paste-resist decoration applied on both sides of fabric

Pale green-blue silk with cloud motifs painted in gold pigment; additional motifs embroidered in polychrome silk and gold threads

Banana fiber with vegetable dyes, weft ikat and warp stripes