Uchishiki (Altar Cloth), late Edo period (1789–1868), 1797, Japan, Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts, 67cm x cm (26 3/8 x 26 1/2 in

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Uchishiki (Altar Cloth), late Edo period (1789–1868), 1797, Japan, Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts, 67cm x cm (26 3/8 x 26 1/2 in.)

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Keywords: 1, 1789–1868, 2, 4, 1797, 67cm, altar, binding, cloth, edo, faced, gold-leaf--lacquered-paper, interlacings, japan, late, patterning, period, satin, secondary, silk, supplementary, twill, uchishiki, warp-float, warps, weave, weft-float, wefts