Horse wrapping cloth (umakake)
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two long and narrow selvage -to-selvage widths sewn together at center (for approximately 36 inches) to form a long and narrow panel with four free-flying ends that measures more than 15 feet. The panel was to decorate a horse used in a ceremonial parade. The decoration on the panel is the same on both sides with the design reversing at the center.
label: Description
content: In the center, the part that wrapped around the horse's belly, there is a Japanese family crest, a bud surrounded by five leaves within a circle and more leaves. The next part, the area that crossed over the back of the horse and was anchored by the saddle, are polychrome frontal flowers on a blue and white linear background. The four flying streamers have a repetition of the same family crest decorated with floral flourishes. Each streamer ends with a blue and white diagonal checkerboard pattern.
place: label: made in
content: Japan
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from The Grodzins Fund for Textile Acquisition
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2001-2-1
objectType: label: Type
content: printed, dyed & painted textiles
label: Type
content: Horse wrapping cloth (umakake)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: bast fiber, probably hemp Technique: resist printed/painted; colored dyes added by stencil and by hand techniques.
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 478.8 x 64.8 cm (15 ft. 8 1/2 in. x 25 1/2 in.)