Katazome
Katazome is a resist dye technique in which a paste of rice flour and bran is applied to cloth through a cut paper stencil. This paste is applied with a flat, blunt tool or a brush: where the paste has been pushed onto the cloth, dye will not penetrate. Dyes can be applied using an immersion method, by hand tinting, or by a combination of these applications, depending on the complexity of the desired effect. If the cloth is to be seen from both sides, the application of rice paste through a stencil is applied to both sides of a cloth, requiring an amazing technical skill for exact registration of the stencil on front and back.
A Four Panel Noren: Resist Dyed Cotton Curtain
ca. late nineteenth, early twentieth century 16" x 52", 4... (more)
A Length of 19th Century Katazome Tsumugi Silk: Bats
ca. mid to late nineteenth century 31" x 12", 78.5 cm x 3... (more)
A Length of Intricate Narumi Kongata Cotton: Gourds and Geese
ca. late nineteenth century 27" x 12 1/4", 68.5 cm x 30.5... (more)
A Resist Dyed Festival Collar: Stripes
ca. early to mid twentieth century 63" x 3", 160 cm x 7.5... (more)
A Small Fragment of Okinawan Bingata: Stenciled
ca. late nineteenth, early twentieth century 4 1/4" x 5 1... (more)
A Resist Dyed Furoshiki: Wood Sorrel and Snow Crystal
ca. early twentieth century 53" x 49", 134.5 cm x 124.5 c... (more)
A Patched Furoshiki: Boro and Katazome
ca. early to mid twentieth century 50" x 50", 127 cm x 12... (more)
A Two Tone Katazome Length: Pale and Dark Blue
ca. late nineteenth century 31" x 13", 78.5 cm x 33 cm Th... (more)
A Length of Resist Dyed Cotton: Grapes and Lattice
ca. early to mid twentieth century 48" x 13", 122 cm x 33... (more)
A Beautiful Piece of Narumi Kongata: Stenciled Faux Shibori
ca. early twentieth century 28 1/2" x 12 3/4", 72.5 cm x ... (more)