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Bid 120.00
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11/14 18:44 EST

19th C Japanese Katazome Stencil Dyed Futon Cover
November 2012 Auction by Far East Asian Art

This striking hand woven indigo dyed “futongawa” or “futonji” folk textile is made from medium weight hand spun “aizome” (indigo) dyed cotton. Meiji period, ca. 1880. It has a blue and white “kiku karakusa” (chrysanthemum and scrolling vine) pattern done in the traditional resist stencil-dyeing technique called "katazome." The resist used was rice paste, not wax, and the light weight hand-carved stencils (“katagami”) were made of mulberry paper coated with persimmon tannin...
Bid 280.00
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04/03 06:35 EDT