TEXTILE

Textile Arts

Kimono Fragment with Design of Stream and Flowers

Unknown Artist, Mid Edo period, 1736-1740

Fabric for a Summer kimono; dyed, tie-dyed, and embroidered linen.

18th centuryJapanese

Textile Arts

Long, Narrow Textile That Served as a Tablecloth (to cover the Table/Base for the Shotoku Taishi Shrine)

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 17th century

Silk

17th centuryJapanese

Textile Arts

Fragment of Brocaded Fancy Weave

Unknown Artist

French

Textile Arts

Wall hanging

Margarete Köhler, c. 1920

Cotton

20th centuryGerman

Textile Arts

Bee

Josef Hoffmann, 1910-1911

Ink on silk

20th centuryAustrian

Textile Arts

Textile Fragment of the Shōtoku era with Design of Pine and Plum

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Textile Arts

MEIWA 1764-1771

Unknown Artist

Silk

Japanese

Textile Arts

Bag, Panel from a Cargo Bag

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Warp: tightly wound 2 ply undyed white wool. Structural weft: 1 ply Z spun. Decorative (soumak) weft: all 2 Z spun S ply. Colors: yellow, red, blue, dark blue, green, white, undyed brown, aubergine, orange. Countered soumak: light and dark red, aubergine, orange, yellow, light and dark blue. Mildly corrosive brown. 78 rows soumak per vertical decimeter. 72 decorative warps per horizontal decimeter. Both selvedges: 1 bundle of 3 warps wrapped in red brocading. Top end: 3.5 cm. slit tapestry kilim with 1 cm. brocade wefts, doubled (to 4 ply). Bottom end: cut. Which is top and which is bottom is unclear.

19th centuryAzerbaijan