We strongly recommend a visit to RESOBOX Gallery & Cafe, 41-26, 27th Street, Long Island City.
Over 3000 amigurumi contributed by over 140 artists from 32 different countries. Our friend Albena ./ Bennelle is in the show. Up until Feb 28, 2016. We had a beautiful two hour lunch!
Fragment of cotton. Japanese.
late Edo period, 19th century. Fragment
of plain-weave cotton with dark blue ground and design of butterflies and fans
(uchiwa) with trailing ribbons in dark blue, blue-black and natural. Gift of Benjamin W. Crowninshield to the MFA,
April 1877