A Tower of Hand Loomed Stripes and Plaids
Written on February 16, 2012
Showing a tall stack of hand loomed cotton plaids and stripes–they date from the mid-to-late nineteenth century through the 1940s or so: I love them all.
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Sri is a textile gallery in Brooklyn, New York, USA, specializing in antique Japanese folk textiles, highlighting the indigo-dyed cotton utilitarian fabrics and boro--or patched and mended--textiles of old Japan.
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Incredible! And very handsome too.
February 16, 2012 @ 7:20 pm
oh, beautiful, indeed.
February 18, 2012 @ 6:02 pm
incredibly beautiful collection
February 19, 2012 @ 3:18 pm
To be a prt of the making of these… pure heaven
March 30, 2012 @ 1:46 am