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Unusual Farmer's Kimono:Lining of American Flour Sacks Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1930 item# 808912
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ca. early to mid twentieth century 46" x 46", 117 cm x 117 cm This work kimono is so loaded with desirable attributes that it is difficult to know where to begin enumerating them. First, the most unusual--and this is the first time we have ever seen this--is a lining made with antique cotton flour sacks manufactured in the state or Oregon in the United States. The writing on the bags reads "Manufactured by The Portland Flouring Mills Co., Portland Oregon" and "Bye ...click for details

A Child's "Farmer" Cotton Shima Kimono: Stripes Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1930 item# 808910
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ca. early twentieth century 27" x 32 1/2", 68.5 cm x 81.5 cm Absolutely charming, this is a mini nagagi, or long coat, made for a child, most likely from repurposed cloth, probably from the child's parents' cast-off clothing. Beautifully faded, this indigo dyed striped cotton kimono shows some repairs to the sleeves (see detail photos) and has a lovely, long silk tie. The interior is fitted with faded indigo cotton linings.

An Intricately and Beautifully Pieced Silk Komebukuro: Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1900 item# 806944
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ca. mid to late nineteent century 10 1/2" x 15", 26.5 cm x 38 cm This intensely pieced beauty owes its allure to the gorgeous Edo period (1603-1867) silks--all dyed using botanical dyes--that are expertly stitched together on a diagonal. Pay special attention to very small runs of pieced cloth that are used to fill one small square area: quite amazingly detailed stitchery went into this silk-lined, drawstsring bag. The cloth of course is recycled from garments. This bag, being a ...click for details

An Antique Child's Kimono with "Protective" Stitching Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1920 item# 806942
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ca. late nineteenth/ early twentieth century 34 1/2" x 32", 88 cm x 81.5 cm This very smart little child's kimono is made of tsumugi, or a kind of raw silk which is dyed a rich, medium tone grey. It is in pristine condition. The repeat pattern seen on this small kimono is hand applied to the cloth using a hand cut stencil, in a method called surikomi: the pattern is a repeat of hemp leaves and some kind of wildflower. The curious stitch up the back of the garment is done in ...click for details

A Heavily Overpatched Boro Koshimaki: Half Under-Kimono Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1940 item# 806941
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ca. early to mid twentieth century 33" x 46", 84 cm x 117 cm This is a wonderfully rural piece, a gorgeous collage of mainly home spun, hand woven cotton textiles, the botton being very heavily over-patched. Aside from the visual beauty of this sarong-like under kimono--a kind of 'half-slip'--is that it comes to us from a collection of Japanese textiles collected in the early 1990s, the collector was a textile researcher. Therfore we know this koshimaki was made in Akita ...click for details

A Gorgeous Indigo Dyed Child's Kasuri Kimono Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1930 item# 805094
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ca. early twentieth century 38" x 41", 96.5 cm x 104 cm Beautifully colored in greys, bone whites and rich indigos, with an extraordinary kasuri (ikat) patterns that include vertical elements of graded width, this child's kimono is woven from cotton and silk. The touch of this hand woven cloth is refined in the hand; the tasteful arrangement of kasuri-dyed threads is extremely elegant: one has to imagine a child wearing this dapper garment to get the full visual effect. This ...click for details

A Patched and Mended Cotton Under-Kimono: Koshimaki Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 805092
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ca. early to mid twentieth century 29 1/2" x 46", 75 cm x 117 cm This is a cotton under-kimono, kind of like a half-slip that is worn like a sarong. In certain cases this kind of under kimono is referred to as koshimaki. The blue dyed cloth, the base of this boro textile, is probably commerciallly produced (or at least the cotton is powerloomed), and there are ten pieces sewn together to create the area of the koshimaki. Note the flowers (camellias?) which are the repeat pattern ...click for details

A Pieced Crepe Silk Under Kimono: Botanical Dyes Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1910 item# 805091
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ca. mid to late nineteenth century 25" x 48", 63.5 cm x 122 cm This is an half under-kimono, han juban, made primarily of hand sewn pieces of chirimen, or crepe, silk, over forty pieces joined together. This color combination of orange and purple is a common one for garments of this sort which are made from scraps of old clothing. The orange dye is from safflower and the purple is from gromwell root, both dyes being readily available dyestuffs especially in Japan's eastern regi ...click for details

An Indigo Dyed Paste Resist Three Panel Noren: Kanji Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1920 item# 802859
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ca. late nineteenth early twentieth century 52 1/2" x 39", 133 cm x 99 cm The five white kanji, or Chinese characters, which dominate this indigo dyed cotton noren, or door covering are done using a paste resist technique: rice paste is applied to the undyed cotton and the paste is rendered to resemble kanji. The cloth is dyed in indigo and the pasted areas resist the indigo, giving us these beautiful calligraphic forms. Fabulously weathered and faded due to exposure to the elem ...click for details

An Indigo Dyed Asa Kasuri Boro: Hemp Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 802853
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ca. early to mid twentieth century 52 1/2" x 25", 132 cm x 64 cm This two panel boro is woven from a gorgeous indigo dyed kasuri asa (ikat woven hemp or ramie) fabric, most likely omi jofu, the extremely finely made hemp/ ramie fabrics from Shiga, Japan. The asa cloth is silken to the touch and very lightweight-- and it is beautifully figured with phoenixes, scrolls depicting plovers or chidori, paulownia flowers and abstract cross hatchings. Just gorgeous. Add to that the 12 as ...click for details

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