Scale Pattern
date: label: Date
content: late 18th - mid 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Scale pattern (uroko) was used as a talisman to ward off bad luck since it's originally associated with snakes and butterflies that shed its skin or chrysalis. While this pattern is related to regeneration, it is also simply a triangle pattern as well.
place: label: made in
content: Japan
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1948-128-71
objectType: label: Type
content: textile designs
label: Object Name
content: Katagami
label: Type
content: Katagami
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu)