Wrapping Cloth

This is a cloth used to wrap clothes, and was made of a similar fabric to that of the stored clothes. In other words, silk clothes were generally wrapped in silk, cotton clothes in cotton and ramie clothes in ramie. Its size is usually about three to four panels in width, and many wrapping cloths are patchworked using scrap fabric. The cloth shown here was designed to wrap court attires, using a single layer of thin navy silk about one and a half panels in width. The hem was inwardly folded to make a seam.