19th century
One half of a two-panel Navajo dress
125 × 86.7 cm (49 3/16 × 34 1/8 in.)
Denman Waldo Ross, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1931
Resist-dyed gray silk crepe (chirimen) with "twilight dying" (akebono-zome) designs utilizing paste-resist (yuzenzome) and hand-painted techniques; selected motifs embroidered with polychrome silk and gold threads
19th centuryJapaneseLinen warp with wool weft
20th centuryPolishJute, plastic, and cotton
20th centuryAmericanWool pile on a foundation of cotton warps and cotton and wool wefts
17th centuryPersianVelvet
19th-20th centuryEuropean?Cotton and wax-covered cotton in yellow and black, twill weave
20th centuryGermanFiber
Italian