Textile Fragment of the Meiwa era with Design of Wisteria

The support medium is twill. The technique is brocade. The shape/form is "kesa

Silk

Hanging scroll; unspun silk filaments embroidered on woven silk

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

Compound weave brown silk with supplementary gold wefts; selected motifs embroidered in polychrome silk threads

Fiber

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

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)

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

Book of swatches mounted on paper (56 sheets)