A Length of Shirakage Shibori: Indigo Dots on Cotton
$40.00 USD
early twentieth century
25 1/2" x 12", 65 cm x 30.5 cm
This is an attractive fragment that shows a difficult shibori technique called shirakage: to create a design on cloth using this technique the artisan must hide all the undyed cloth and expose only what is intended to be dyed before immersing the entire bolt in the dye bath.
This requires tremendous skill and experience.
The pattern on this length is just straightforward and fairly unusual. It shows vertical, parallel lines that are punctuated by staggered coin-sized dots.
This piece is in good condition save for some ingrained creases from its former life as part of yukata or an unlined, summer kimono.
Very nice looking and quite unusual.
Recommended.
