WOMAN'S SASH, OBI (part).
JAPANESE; first half of the 19th century.
Tissue, woven in silk and gilt paper strips. []Textile fragment of brocaded silk in silk and gilt paper strips, Japan, first half of 19th centuryTextile fragment of brocaded silk in silk and gilt paper strips. Pattern in colours on a light blue ground and consists of flat fans, reeds and fireflies crawling or in flight on a ground of close lozenge diaper. Part of an obi.