JAPANESE GOLD GAUZE

Vegetable-dyed banana fiber; "ro" weave

Silk with vegetable dyes, warp and weft ikat designs; collar lining made of red crepe, robe lining made of red wool

Resist-dyed silk damask ground detailed with stenciling and painting and with decoration embroidered in dyed silk threads and gilt-paper-wrapped threads

Vegetable-dyed banana fiber, plain weave

Resist-dyed red damask silk utilizing stitch-resist (nuishime shibori) and tie-dying (kanoko shibori) techniques; selected motifs embroidered with gold-paper-wrapped and polychrome silk threads

Silk and gold

Vegetable-dyed, handspun cotton with stenciled paste-resist decoration

Ramie with vegetable dyes and mineral pigments; stenciled and freehand paste-resist decoration applied on both sides of fabric