Textile Item Number: N2.201 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Bold stylized flowers and leaves polychrome outlined in white and on dark blue ground. Bingata is a sort of batik using bean paste. Two seams separating cloth into three equal sections. Two hemmed sides. Corners stretched from bingata process.
Item History
- Made in Yaeyama, Japan
- Collected by Wayne Suttles during 1954
- Owned by Wayne Suttles before 1954
- Received from Wayne Suttles (Seller) and University Purchase (Funding source) during 1954
What
- Name
- Textile
- Identification Number
- N2.201
- Type of Item
- textile
- Material
- hemp fibre
- Manufacturing Technique
- woven and bingata
- Overall
- height 107.0 cm, width 103.9 cm
Who
- Culture
- Japanese
- Field Collector
- Wayne Suttles
- Previous Owner
- Wayne Suttles
- Received from
- Wayne Suttles (Seller) and University Purchase (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Yaeyama, Japan
When
- Collection Date
- during 1954
- Ownership Date
- before 1954
- Acquisition Date
- during 1954
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 2171/0012