Large futon cover.
Block printed cotton
Japanese . Early 20th century
Five loom width wide. 166 cm’s x 190 cm’s
Japan
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Large futon cover.(DETAIL)
Block printed cotton
Japanese . Early 20th century
Five loom width wide. 166 cm’s x 190 cm’s
Japan
Cotton indigo strip woven tye dyed wrapper (DETAIL)
Ivory coast , Africa
Early to mid 20 th century
Measurements :112 cm’s x 166 cm’s
Ivory coast , Africa
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Strip woven cotton indigo and white Fulani blanket
Made in Mali mid 20 th century
Measurement : 1 metre 40 cm’s by 850 cm’s
Mali
A large strip woven ndop cloth from the grasslands
of the Cameroon
Cameroon
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Indigo Boro,
made from indigo patches dating from the 19th century
Futon cover, Japan
Measures: 61inches by 50 inches or 127 cms x155cm’s
Japan
Indigo strip woven and resist dyed cotton cloth.
known as Ndop Cloth
Baminiki People, Grassland of Cameroon, Mid 20th century Measurements: 2 metres 30cm’s x.95 cm’s
Cameroon
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A Japanese Indigo Boro. (front)
Composed in 1900 but made of earlier fragments of shibori,katazome and kasuri
Measurements:95inches x 25inches or 250cm’s x 640cm’s.
Japan
A Japanese Indigo Boro. (back)
Composed in 1900 but made of earlier fragments of shibori,katazome and kasuri
Measurements:95inches x 25inches or 250cm’s x 640cm’s.
Japan
A Japanese Indigo Boro.
Mostly indigo plaid.
Measurements: 64 inches X 68inches or 1630 x 1730 cm’s
Japan
Indigo clamp resist cotton panel.
Japan 20th century.
Measures:42ins square or 107 cm’s square.
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd. century
Japan
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Indigo cotton cloth with a panel of slit weaving
known as Yoraba lace. Yoruba people, Nigeria Mid 19th century. Measurements: 140cms x180 cms
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Nigeria
Indigo strip woven and resist dye cotton cloth.
known as Ndop Cloth
Baminiki People, Grassland of Cameroon, Mid 20th century Measurements: 220 cms X 22 cms.
Cameroon
Indigo cotton blanket
Dogon People, Mali, Mid. 20th century
Measurements: 230 cm’s by 140 cm’s
Mali
Clamp resist indigo shibori
Wool gauze kimono
Early 20th century
SOLD
Japan
Arishi Shibori (vertical lines)
Indigo on cotton.
Tashio period. 1912 – 1926
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd.
Measurements: 33 cms x 125 cms – 13 inches x 49 inches
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Japan
Ori-nui Shibori (meandering stream)
Indigo on cotton.
Tashio period. 1912 – 1926
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd.
Measurements: 66 cms x 102 cms – 26 inches x 40 inches
Japan
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Clamp resist sekka Shibori
2nd quarter of the 20th Century
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd, page 119
Measurements: 91 cms x 91 cms – 36 inches square
SOLDSashiko (stitched) furoshiki,
cotton indigo
Taisho-Showa period
Early 20th century, Japan
This example has rare combinations of design.
Measurements 52 inches square,132 cm’s Square
Japan
Indigo Boro
Bed cover
Made from valued patches of indigo .
Indigo has many qualities but a vital one , was it is a natural antiseptic .
No bugs would eat it -?which made it perfect for bedding .
Indigo was therefore highly valued as a talisman
Boro means tattered and repaired
In Japan today they are regarded as
tangible cultural property
Origin : Japan circa 1900
Measurements: 164 cm’s x 123 cm’s
Japan
Indigo Boro
Bed cover
Made from valued patches of indigo .
Indigo has many qualities but a vital one , was it is a natural antiseptic .
No bugs would eat it -?which made it perfect for bedding .
Indigo was therefore highly valued as a talisman
Boro means tattered and repaired
In Japan today they are regarded as
tangible cultural property
Origin : Japan circa 1900
Measurements: 164 cm’s x 123 cm’s
Japan
This weaving reminds me of the work of Agnes Martin,
whose work has been described as an – ‘essay in discretion on inwardness and silence’
I notice that The Pace Gallery are presenting Martin alongside Navajo weaving in Palo Alto and New York in November.
Indigo weaving, hand spun, hand woven,
two -24 inch loom widths
Yoruba people, Nigeria,
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 72 inches by 48 inches or 183 cm’s x 122cm’s
Nigeria
Indigo tye dyed, strip woven, wrapper
Cote d’ivoir, mid 20th century
Measurements: 1 metre 16cm’s x 1 metre 70cm’s
Ivory Coast
Strip woven resist dyed cotton panel known as ndop cloth.
Baminiki people, Cameroon
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 1metre 20cm’s x 2 metres 20cm’s
Cameroon
Indigo and white cotton strip woven wrapper.
Ivory Coast
Mid 20 h century
Measurement:156 cm’s x 120 cm’s
Ivory Coast
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Fulani indigo blanket
Strip woven cotton ,
Mali .
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 193 cm’s x 120 cm’s
Mali
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Indigo cotton Shibori – Ori- nui (meandering stream)
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 87 cm’s x 87 cm’s
Shibori
Indigo and white cotton wrapper
Ivory Coast
Mid 20 th century
Measurement: 100cm’s X 128 cm’s
Ivory Coast
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