7962:1960s Mud-Dyed Japanese Silk Doro-Ohshima Tsumugi, Geometric,59n. AraiHari
Catalog# 7962 1960s Rare Japanese Textiles: Doro (Mud-dyed) Ohshima Tsumugi (pongee) Silk FabricGeometric Rounded-Hex Elements (1/4 inch/ 6.35mm) Diagonal Honeycomb Pattern Grid Array Width: 14 inches / 35.56 cmLength: 50 inches / 1.27mUS$20.00 per piece Plus Shipping Item Details and Description Fabric History/Pedigree: 1960s lightweight doro ohshima tsumugi (mud-dyed) fabric from kimono pieces from an Arai Hari (special Japanese kimono cleaner -- see info on Arai-Hari HERE from John Marshall, expert on Japanese textiles . Fabric Description Details: This thin, lightweight & translucent piece is a geometric pattern rendered in a pixelated manner, resembles honey comb or classic tortoise shell patterns; Each element has a dot within it; background is dark mud-brown (almost black) with the motifs in tan colors. In these older mud-Ohshima fabrics, note how the motifs are rendered by the pixelated fields throughout all the various geometric patterns, this pixelation is co