Cloth: cotton; mojiri (gauze weave), tate-gasuri (warp ikat), indigo dyeexpand_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 2019.20.68
This is a child’s pajamas, or nemaki. The cotton was woven in a type of gauze weave (mojiri-ori), which involved twisting the warp threads between the straight weft threads, resulting in a light, breathable fabric ideal for the hot summer months. A small pattern of double lines, arranged in sets of three and created by resist dyeing the warp threads, decorates it. The lighter blue edges of the undyed sections, where a small amount of indigo entered, give these white lines a luminous, almost flamelike quality.
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