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Silver Bells: Children's Magazine from Japan

Vol. II No. 2 & 3 Illustrated children's stories from Japan.

Silk Yardage

Silk (?) hand woven fabric with multicolored plaid in maroon pink green yelow and white. The warp and weft threads are each laid out in sections of various colored threads to form intersecting stripes. The weave creates a complex diamond pattern over…

Silk Yardage

Black silk yardage with gold brocade medallions with bats Machine woven silk with "Standard HK" printed on white selvages. The silk has a black background with medallions in gold brocade and the character for "lu" (riches) or "shou" (longevity) in…

Silk Yardage

Silk yardage purple and cream checked Handwoven silk with sections of cream colored warp threads and sections of purple warp threads intersecting with both cream and purple weft threads. The overall pattern created is a checkered one of large squares…

Silk Weaving

Silk Brocade Square Maroon satin background with four large phoenixes on each corner in gold and silver. Gold and silver clouds and smaller phoenixes around larger ones. Two edges have gold colored salvages and the other two are hemed by hand.

Silk Square

Two white silk squares

Silk Square

Hand woven cream colored silk square with machine stich (of clear nylon thread) to finish edges. See Accession File: card originally attached to fabric square reads: "Jack Lenor Larsen Inc Canton Crepe 2412/01 ivory Thaibok 100% silk handwoven in…

Silk Screen: An Asian American Perspective

PBS Series of three Asian American programs: Made in China; Dollar a Day, 10 Cents a Dance; the New Puritans: The Sikhs of Yuba City.