Katazome Cotton. Japanese Antique. Futon Cover. Folk Textile. Japanese Indigo. Cotton. Vintage Fabric. Japanese Cotton. Stencil Dyed Fabric

Katazome Cotton. Japanese Antique. Futon Cover. Folk Textile. Japanese Indigo. Cotton. Vintage Fabric. Japanese Cotton. Stencil Dyed Fabric

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*More photos to come*. This piece comes from an antique Japanese boro textile dating back to Meiji / Taisho era, late 1800s to 1900s. Artisan made katazome*. Hand loomed cotton. This was once part of a futon cover used in a peasant home. The crane design is higher quality making this a great opportunity to get a large quantity of the same special fabric.

Length: 160cm / 1.7 yards. Width: 125cm / 1.3 yards. Made up of four panels. One panel has some large holes as shown. One panel has two small holes. The remaining two panels are fully intact. Overall, a fantastic example of Japanese folk textiles full of character and antique charm and in great condition.

It would make an excellent table cloth, throw or wall hanging. It would also supply a great deal of fabric for a project.

*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, throws, blankets or clothing. 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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