Textile Fragment of the Meiwa era with Design of Plants

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

Fiber

Resist-dyed red damask silk utilizing stitch-resist (nuishime shibori) and tie-dying (kanoko shibori) techniques; selected motifs embroidered with gold-paper-wrapped and polychrome silk threads

Braided and knotted purple silk cord with fringed tassels

Hanging scroll; unspun silk filaments embroidered on woven silk

Fiber

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