Object Details
- Retailer
- Daimaru, (Kyoto, Japan, founded 1920)
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Cloak of heavy handwoven wool from Bhutan is horizontally striped by the use of weft threads, in shades of green, red, blue, and white. The wider stripes are embroidered in geometric patterns in bright colors. Four panels of the wool are whipstitched together at the selvedges and box pleated at the top to form a cloak. Lined with yellow satin and six full length strips of silver fox. Silver fox collar with a metal fastener and yellow satin arms straps inside.
- 1960s
- Accession Number
- 1969-94-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Coat
- Medium
- Medium: wool, silk, silver fox fur
- Dimensions
- H x W: 109.2 × 78.7 cm (43 × 31 in.)
- Open: 119.1 × 183 cm (46 7/8 in. × 6 ft. 1/16 in.)
- made in
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1969-94-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq478c750e6-5d2c-4496-baec-4d046ff62d24
