Luxurious metallic vintage silk brocade weaving reflects sparkling silver and gold majestic mountains on a white silk ground. This fukuru obi might have previously been sewn into a Nagoya style obi, where the crease lines remain.
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Splendid skillfully woven gray pattern with gold accents reveal flowers, leaves and birds on a smooth satin silk cream ground. A woven floral decorative strip runs lengthwise separating the larger design from lovely butterflies, flowers and leaves woven on the other side of the line.
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Elegant woven Nishijin brocade roundels of flowers appear in shades of green, blue, orange and red and stand out from the luxurious golden metallic path pattern. Surrounding the flowers are detailed butterflies amidst tiny blossoms and leaves on a black ground.
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p>Lovely detailed Japanese good luck symbols (flying cranes, flowers, bridges, blossoms, pine trees, toy boxes) are woven into this antique Japanese obi in shades of brown and dark burnt orange on a dark orange ground. Several areas are also expertly hand embroidered.
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This vintage Japanese black silk obiage sash is hand dyed with the shibori (tie-dyeing) method. You can see the large roundels decorated with gray and white tie-dyed designs. Tiny pin holes are present which indicates the stitches made during the shibori dyeing process. In Japan obiage are used to help secure the obi but this w ...click for details
