Antique Japanese Katagami Textile Stencil with Cranes, Branches, and Handwritten Notes longan and longan kansas city but it's quite solid and

but it's quite solid and pretty heavy

with the crank rotating the two painted glass slides in opposite directions to produce optical effects

stable and I don't thik detracting

This one I purchased from the same seller as the daguerreotype of the drawing of the  child I just listed

Both painting and frame in excellent condition

Antique Japanese Katagami Textile Stencil with Cranes, Branches, and Handwritten Notes longan and longan kansas city but it's quite solid andThis is a Japanese "katagami" paper stencil, made of layers of mulberry paper laminated together and treated with kakishibu persimmon tannin that lends durability and water resistence. Paper stencil like this were traditionally used for patterning textiles, especially kimono fabric, using a resist dyeing process called katazome. I am not at all an expert but find them quite beautiful things, and really love the (all handcut) pattern on this one, with