Japanese Vintage Mingei Textile Hemp Tsugaru Kogin Kimono Indigo
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Directory: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1940: Item # 1483192
Directory: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1940: Item # 1483192
Please refer to our stock # 13820 when inquiring.
$1,500.00
$1500
Tsugaru kogin kimono made of vegetable indigo dye hemp whose warps and wefts are hand plied. It is made in Tsugaru region in Aomori prefecture in Tohoku district. Kogin-sashi is one kind of needlework (sashiko), stitches with white cotton yarn go horizontally and make geometrical patterns. It makes the hemp kimono warm with thick kogin in the cold district like Aomori, where it is hard to cultivate cotton. It has thin indigo dye cotton lining and sashiko in the lower body too. Both sleeves are "teppo-sode" with gusset cloth in the armpits. In excellent condition except for light stains in Kogin-sashi. The first half of the 20th century. 128cm x 88cm
Tsugaru kogin kimono made of vegetable indigo dye hemp whose warps and wefts are hand plied. It is made in Tsugaru region in Aomori prefecture in Tohoku district. Kogin-sashi is one kind of needlework (sashiko), stitches with white cotton yarn go horizontally and make geometrical patterns. It makes the hemp kimono warm with thick kogin in the cold district like Aomori, where it is hard to cultivate cotton. It has thin indigo dye cotton lining and sashiko in the lower body too. Both sleeves are "teppo-sode" with gusset cloth in the armpits. In excellent condition except for light stains in Kogin-sashi. The first half of the 20th century. 128cm x 88cm
