A Beautifully Crafted Cotton Komebukuro: One Safflower Dyed Silk Patch

This lovely, rustic, drawstring bag is hand sewn from about 15 pieces of beautiful hand loomed, old Japanese cottons--and there is one lovely and conspicuous piece of orange toned benibana or safflower dyed silk which provides a visual counterpart to the other pieces.

The bag is fully lined in indigo dyed cotton.

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.   

A marvelous bag, it is one that shows a really good sampling of hand loomed cottons, especially notable for the bright patch spot of benibana dyed silk.

The cotton drawstring seems to be original to the bag.