A Large, Patched 'Boro' Textile: Beautiful Color

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #776832

ca. late Ninetenth, early Twentieth century 77" x 60", 195.5 cm x 152.5 cm A big, beautiful piece-constructed 'boro' textile which was presumably used as a futon cover, a sleeping mat or a kotatsu cover. It is made of recycled clothing and other utilitarian cloth; the random pattern of cloth and color used to create this piece is beautifully architectonic in appearance. The axial layout of the patches and pieces of indigo cloth used to comprise this is really lovely, as is the stitching and ... Click for details

An Indigo Dyed Katazome Han Juban: Embroidered Collar

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #774258

ca. early Twentieth century 24" x 26 12", 61 cm x 67.5 cm This is a half under-kimono called a han juban. It is made of indigo dyed cotton using a stencil resist dye method called katazome: the elaborate and small repeat pattern shown on this cotton garment was applied using a stencil and rice paste: the rice past was squeegeed through a stencil on to cloth: where the rice paste was present, indigo dye was resisted. Note the imperfections in the dyeing process on this delicately stenciled pi... Click for details

A Stitched and Patched Boro Noragi

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #774255

ca. early to mid Twentieth century 33" x 49", 84 cm x 124.5 cm This cotton noragi, or work coat, is made from a variety of hand woven textiles: most prominent is a selection of kasuri (ikat) cloth and a wide striped cloth. This work coat has indeed seen a lot of work in its day as can be shown by the multiple rows of stitching and the insistent patching: stitches reinforce; patchings mend. Shown is the interior of the coat; the exterior--shown her as the proper interior--is mainly of indi... Click for details

A Gorgeous Sashiko Stitched Furoshiki: Kasuri Cloth

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #774254

ca. early Twentieth century 40" x 38", 111.5 cm x 96.5 cm A jewel. This wonderfully executed sashiko furoshiki is beautiful in its coloration, in its pattern and in its stitching. The base cloth is a sapphire-blue kasuri (ikat) cotton, indigo dyed. Over this very sophisticated ikat dyed striped cloth are stitched four separate areas, one on each corner, to lend extra durability to the corners of this wrapping cloth. Shown are chrysanthemum and undulating line patterns, each beautifully do... Click for details

Japanese Furoshiki With Mandarin Ducks

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #772494
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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 Asa Kitchen Cloth Boro

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