A Beautiful Cotton Komebukuro: Tenugui Lining
$80.00 USD
early to mid twentieth century
7 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 7 1/2", 19 cm x 19 cm x 19 cm
This lovely, rustic, drawstring bag is hand sewn from about 15 pieces of beautiful hand loomed, old Japanese cottons, including examples of kasuri and striped cloth.
This kind of piece-constructed, drawstring bag is often referred to as a komebukuro.
Komebukuro are bags that were used to bring token offerings of uncooked rice or beans to a temple or shrine festival, the piecing and patching often being thought-out and planned, for festive effect.
The cotton drawstring is threaded through tabbed loops.
Beautiful.