ANTiQUE INDiGO TSuTSuGAKI FURoSHiKI - oLD JaPaNeSE AiZoME MiNGEI TEXTiLE with one BoRo Mend - FREE hotsell SHiPPING!!!

This is almost better than perfect, with it's one boro mend, a big, L-shaped hole, shored up snugly in the traditional fashion. This would make a super tapestry. It would make an even better gift.

This is a 3-panel old homespun indigo furoshiki with a big tsutsugaki crest right in the middle. The fabric is hand woven, homespun, and dyed a deep indigo color. It is so deep, at first i was not sure whether this was black or blue. But it is blue, OK. The photos make it look bluer. Maybe my eyes are broken. hahahah

The fabric is hand woven and hand dyed in indigo by a dye process called tsutsugaki. This is a resist dyeing method in which a rice paste resist called nori is applied to the fabric using a tool not unlike a pastry bag, a cloth bag with the corner snipped off. Once the nori dries, the entire piece is dyed and the areas covered in nori remain undyed.

This fabric is a medium weight fabric and extremely sturdy. Although it is old, it is still perfectly OK to use in any way, strong and clean. There is stitching on the outer edges which suggests that this piece originally had some sort of border sewn on. A 'quilt' of sorts. Furoshiki are normally a type of wrapping cloth, but i have found that the larger ones like this tend to be used in a lot of ways; as a drape over something being stored, as a tapestry or as hotsell a display piece, somehow, and so on. People use them for the pleasant design aesthetic as well as for the utility of a furoshiki.

This piece has a crest dyed centrally, probably a family crest. I love that they used pine needles as a design element. Wrapped around the outside of the flower in the middle are two pine needle sets, one on either side. Two needles, that is the pine needle of a Japanese pine.

The condition of this piece is just superb. There is one big tear which has been duly mended in the traditional boro mend style that i love so much. I call those mends 'organic' because of the shapes and the way they follow the hole. There are photos above of that mend, the ninth and tenth. There is one more very tiny puncture hole. That is shown in the seventh photo. It is not even wide enough to get a pen through, i think. I am certainly not going to try and poke anything through there, though....hahahaha

more photos over here

https://www.facebook.com/pg/RCarbinEthnotextiles/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1704905076304763

dimensions

122 cms long x 95.5 cms wide

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