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Seating Mat

Meiji period (1868–1912), 1875/1900
Pieced: 18 fragments of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with silk, plain weave
41.7 × 93.7 cm (16.4 × 36.9 in)

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