A Stamped Cotton Omine-san Pilgrim Coat

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #669931

ca. mid Twentieth century 40 1/2" x 49", 103 cm x 124.5 cm This is a cotton jacket worn by ascetic Buddhist yamabushi--literally 'mountain warriors'--for spiritual training on Mount Omine, in the border area between Wakayama and Nara Prefectures, near koya-san (the center of esoteric/Tantric Buddhism in Japan), founded by Kukkai, also known as Kobo-daishi. The area around Omine-san was a favorite haunt of Enno-gyoja, an ascetic 'superman' of the Nara Period; there are many legends about h... Click for details

A Beautiful Indigo Dyed Boro Fragment: Kanji Kasuri

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #669930

ca. early Twentieth century 60" x 13", 153 cm x 13.5 cm A very unusual, complex and beautiful boro fragment. A techincally complicated kasuri (ikat) technique was employed to weave kanji (Chinese characters) into this cotton indigo cloth: the clarity with which they are woven and the naturalistic brush stroking they imitate is really remarkable. Equally wonderful is the insistent, vertical patching on this fragment, which was taken from what must have been a futon cover or futongawa. High... Click for details

Antique Japanese Chirimen Silk Crepe Kimono

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #669772
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From early 20th century, exquisitely crafted, child chirimen sild crepe cost with dynamic flower design. Extremely great in condition.

Stock Number:3565

Size: 77cm high by 100cm... Click for details

Japanese Mingei Textile Bolt of Kasuri Cloth

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1970: item #669498

A bolt of Kurayoshi kasuri cloth, hand woven and natural indigo dyed. Kurayoshi is a region in Tottori prefecture in San-in district where Kurayoshi kasuri has been produced since Edo era. This one has Mt.Fuji, the hawk and the egg plant pattern. They are auspicious signs as there is a saying, "First Mt. Fuji, the second a hawk, the third an egg plant". It means if you dream of one of them at New Year's night, you will be lucky for the year. Brand new condition. 1970s. 36cm x 8m60cm 14.2"x28.... Click for details

A Meticulously Sashiko Stitched Maekake: Sayagata

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1960: item #667820

ca. mid Twentieth century 21" x 22 1/2", 53 cm x 57 cm This intensely and expertly sashiko stitched apron is a tour-de-force of this technique. The allover stitching is done with supremely fine regularity and precision, the difficulty made even steeper by the relatively small pattern. The pattern shown is the sayagata pattern, a tradtional Chinese pattern adopted by the Japanese and quite often used as a design motif. The nexus of the pattern is the Buddhist swastika which radiates outward i... Click for details

A Patched Asakaya Panel: Overdyed Indigo

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #667818

ca. early to mid Twentieth century 68" x 13", 173 cm x 33 cm Wonderfully coarsely yet laxly woven, this hemp kaya, or mosquito netting is dyed in indigo then overdyed with a yellow dyestuff, presumably the kihada dye, obtained from tree bark. This green color is standard-issue for asakaya, and this panel culled from a larger pieces shows one, lone patch at the upper right corner, machine-stitched. A lovely, simple, 'boro' piece.

A Massively Large Cotton Tsutsugaki Yutan

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #665155

ca. late Nineteenth, early Twentieth century 98" x 82", 249 cm x 208 cm This cotton yutan or furniture cover is huge; it is the size of a queen-sized bed cover. It is massive and wonderful with stell blue/grey/green color: hand stitched and with four tabs of scarlet red chirimen (crepe) silk, the color of which contrasts beautifully to the fabric, there are two symmetrical, large mon, or family crests which dominate the design and seem to be stylized bamboo shoots. The cotton fabric of th... Click for details

Japanese Vintage Textile Yukata of Osaka Expo 1970

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1970: item #663566
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Cotton kimono made for Osaka Expo 1970 held in Japan. The symbol mark patterns are stencil-resist dyed. In excellent condition except for very light spattered stains in the right jointing part of the body and the sleeve. 134cm x 130cm 52.8"x51.2"

A Highly Unusual Shibori Boro "Han Juban"

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #660651

ca. early Twentieth century folded dimension: 29" x 25", 74 cm x 63.5 cm This is almost ethereally beautiful in its pale tones and its paperweight silk. This very unusual boro piece is created from piecing together fragments of extremely delicate shibori dyed silk culled from obi age, or a kind of very delicate silk 'scarf' used as padding and is stuffed under ones formal obi. The pale tones that comprise this piece are faint in color, very quiet. It seems that this beauty was destined to... Click for details

A Fine Sakiori Work Vest: Asa Warp

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #660649

ca. early Twentieth century 22" x 15", 56 cm x 38 cm Pristine condition and beautifully colored, this sakkuri, or work vest is woven from torn strips of indigo dyed cotton which is set against an asa (hemp) warp; this work vest, is most likely from Fukui Prefecture (see a similar example in "Riches from Rags: Saki-ori & Other Recycling Traditions in Japanese Rural Clothing", pp. 40, 41, 42, 43). The construction of these piece is simple, the indigo dyed cotton collar, edge banding and tab... Click for details