Length: 190cm / 74.8" / 2 yrds
Width: 180cm / 70.8" / 1.96 yrds

Antique Japanese boro textile dating back to Meiji era, Late 1800s.

Artisan made katazome*.

Hand loomed cotton.

Hand stitched in a peasant home. Made up of lots of pieces the high quality stitching keeps the overall textile very neat.

This one is very large and would make a great tablecloth or throw.

There is a very large amount of fabric to work with. It could be taken apart for reuse. Such a large number of katazome pieces would be significantly more expensive if purchased separately.

Fabric is very nice and soft.

There is a hole near one of the corners (as shown). If you would like to patch it with a similar fabric you can find my other katazome here:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/FurugiStar?ref=listing-shop2-all-items-count§ion_id=7777167

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*Katazome is a traditional Japanese resist dye technique. A stencil, known as kata, is used to apply a flour and water paste before dipping. These textiles were made by hand from scratch. The weaving, stenciling, dying and often the spinning of the cotton was all done by hand by the artisan. Natural botanical dyes were used, indigo being the most common.

Antique indigo textiles, such as this, are typical of 19th / early 20th century Japanese utilitarian textiles. They would have been used to make domestic items such as futon covers. They are highly regarded and collected within Japan and across the world.

In Japan, cotton was highly prized among the peasant class as a warmer alternative to hemp. Indigo dye was the best natural dye available to use with cotton. Indigo cotton became a quintessential Japanese fabric that was never thrown away and always reused. There term boro translates as scrap / rag. Therefore, this category of Japanese textile can simply be referred to as boro.

To learn more about boro take a look at my blog post:
http://furugistarjapan.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/boro-japanese-folk-fabric/

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