Yellow-ground kimono with horizontal stripes, second half 19th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Cloth: silk pongee (tsumugi) and cotton; twill weaveexpand_more
The John R. Van Derlip Fund and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation; purchase from the Thomas Murray Collectionexpand_more 2019.20.49
Not on Viewexpand_more
Material: Silk pongee (raw silk)
This kimono is made of tsumugi, or pongee, a soft, thin cloth woven from raw silk. Its threads come from cocoons rejected as inferior by the silk industry due to their irregularity. Making the thread is a time-consuming process: the maker spins the silk floss into yarn by hand, cocoon by cocoon, instead of spinning filaments of several cocoons at once. Because the silk filaments are of uneven width, the woven texture is not shiny and smooth as with most silk. It appears simpler, yet comfortable and light. The more such a garment is washed, stretched, and worn, the more its luster increases.
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- Title
- Yellow-ground kimono with horizontal stripes
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- Maker
- Accession Number
- 2019.20.49
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