An Excellent Boro Sakabukuro: Two Heavily Mended Sides

$245.00 USD

 early to mid twentieth century
33" x 10", 84 cm x 25.5 cm

Sakabukuro, or sake straining bags, are beautiful boro textiles. Made of cotton saturated with green persimmon tannin, or kaki shibu, which gives the distinctive brown color, this utilitarian textile was used in sake making.

Crude sake, or sake lees, was placed in this bag and pressure was applied to squeeze out and filter the liquid. Repeated use required repeated mendings and we see the wonderfully odd stitches applied for this purpose.  

This is an excellent example of a sakabukuro and it shows beautifully placed, rough patches and mending areas in good quantity: one side shows a large elliptical patch--very impressive--while the other side shows rough patching and stitching, so each side has some seriously artful mending of very different sorts.

A very, very good sakabukuro, and one of a very high quality.

Recommended.

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