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Sample board of gold threads
- loan
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Description
Flint Kilby and Co. was a firm of ‘Merchants and Commission Agents’ operating out of Yokohama. The use of gold thread in Japanese embroidered and woven textiles was much admired in the West. To make gold thread, gold foil was pasted onto paper, cut into narrow strips, and then twisted around cotton or silk threads. This sample board displays several different colours and thicknesses of gold thread. (Exhibition number 1)
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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before 1886
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Flint Kilby & Company (before 1886 - dissolved 31 December 1896) (manufacturer)
- Material and technique
- ink on paper, with cotton and silk threads, and gold foil wrapped around a dyed cotton core (jabara-yori); threads attached to the paper with stitching in blue silk
- Dimensions
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frame 79.3 x 33 x 4.9 cm (height x width x depth)
board 74.1 x 28 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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marked › written › hand-written,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.11
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 1 p. 88, p. 26, illus. p. 88
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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