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Japanese Vintage Mingei Textile Hemp Tsugaru Kogin Kimono Indigo

Japanese Vintage Mingei Textile Hemp Tsugaru Kogin Kimono Indigo


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Directory: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1940: Item # 1483193

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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. Both sleeves are "tsutsu-sode. It has indigo dye thin cotton lining and sashiko in the lower body. In excellent condition. The "first half of the 20th century. 114cm x 99cm