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. 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.Textile fragment of brocaded silk in silk and gilt paper strips, Japan, first half of 19th century