Japanese Furoshiki With Mandarin Ducks

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #772494
32-60

A gift cloth with a pert pair of Mandarin ducks from mid 20th century Japan demonstrates the great care given to small things by the Japanese. The simple scene, created with a resist dye technique called katazome, required several hand applications of rice paste and repeated immersions in dye vats. After the outline of the ducks was drawn and filled with resist paste, dyeing built the scene up by steps from the basic shape, adding black detail, then blue detail. The gold that gives sparkle to th... Click for details

A Suji Shibori Yukata

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #772089

ca. early Twentieth century 50" x 46", 127 cm x 117 cm This is an unlined cotton kimono, or yukata, dyed in indigo dye using a shape-resist method called shibori. The type of shibori used to create the evenly spaced, broken vertical lines on this yukata is called suji: suji shibori employed the use of a kind of primitive pleating 'machine' that was used to draw the width of cloth into a pleated bundle. The bundle would then be tied and dyed; the 'broken' lines are due to the binding of the p... Click for details

A Sashiko Stitched and Patched Cotton Furoshiki

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #772088

ca. early to mid Twentieth century 41" x 41", 104 cm x 104 cm A stunning thing. This is a very re-worked cotton furoshiki or wrapping cloth--its beauty owes to many factors, but lies mainly in the contrast of the very strong, opposing rows of white stitching which are offset by the random placement of patches, some of which are below the stitching, some of which are placed on top of the stitches. This play of patches and stitching is complex and beautiful to see. The green dyed, hand loom... Click for details

A Patched Sakabukuro: Sake Straining Bag

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #772087

ca. early to mid Twentieth century 32 1/2" x 9", 81.5 cm x 23 cm A sakabukuro is a straining bag used in sake production. Crude sake, or sake lees, is poured into this bag. The sealed bag is then subjected to pressure and the sake is forced out, having been once-filtered. The bag is made of cotton which has been saturated with kaki shibu, or green persimmon tannin, and this particular bag is mended with eleven separate patches, the white one being a very nice, artful addition and a good c... Click for details

A Beautifully Patched Boro Noragi: Layered Mendings

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #772086

ca. early Twentieth century 23" x 54 1/2", 58.5 cm x 138.5 cm A beautiful boro jacket. The body of the coat is of a rustic hand loomed, indigo dyed cotton, richly patched and mended in layers with similarly hand loomed cloth as the body. The white cotton sleeves--whose fabric is commercially produced--is patched with pale hand loomed fragments and exhibits some very eccentric and interesting stitched mendings. Note the brass clasps at the cuffs of the sleeves This is a handsome boro norag... Click for details

Japanese Vintage Textile Sakabukuro With Mendings

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #770577
8546

This is a sakabukuro with interesting mending stitches and patches. Sakabukuro was used for squeezing sake mash ( fermented steamed rice )in the process of making sake, Japanese wine. Early or mid Showa era ( ca. 1930s~1950s ). 25.5cm x 85.5cm 10inch x 33inch2/3

Japanese Vintage Textile Asa Kitchen Cloth Boro

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #770576
8545

This is an asa fukin ( kitchen cloth ) which was probably uesd when some food is steamed. It has nice mending patches. Early or mid Showa era ( ca. 1930s~1950s ). 50cm x 48cm 19inch x 20inch

Large Cotton Fabric Drape from Temple

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1970: item #769301
870-TD-nxx

This blue cotton drapery is from a temple. It's about 60" long, including the hanging tabs and approximately 28 feet in length. Interlocking squares inside circles repeat along the length, and one end has kanji characters. There are age spots and discolorations on the fabric which may or may not launder away.

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Japanese Vintage Mingei Textile Sakiori Small Rug

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1960: item #768328
8540

This is a sakiori small rug woven of shreds torn from old kimono, furoshiki, futon cover and so on. In excellent condition. Early or mid Showa era (ca 1930s~1960s ). 72cm x 103cm 28inch x 40inch

Handmade Zabuton Cushions, Set of Five

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #768155
864-7E-248

These cushions are hand-stitched. A print of floral medallions is framed and backed in green. The green fabric appears to be a combination of blue and yellow, like over-dyed indigo. The cushions measure approximately 19" x 22-1/2"; the size is irregular, as is typical of hand-made pieces. They're about 1.3" thick and quite flexible. Date from Showa or earlier.

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