Textile sample book (Yamato-gasuri mihonchō), late 19th-early 20th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Cloth: cotton; tate-yoko gasuri (double ikat)expand_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 2019.20.90
Not on Viewexpand_more
Technique: Double ikat (tate-yoko gasuri)
This is an example of a mihonchō, or sample book, that shows variations of textile patterns. In urban areas, cloth merchants kept sample books to show potential customers available patterns. In rural areas they also served as a record of the work of individual weavers, from whom merchants ordered cloth. The collection contains rectangular swatches of cotton featuring various patterns woven with resist-dyed threads on both the warp and weft, known as tate-yoko gasuri (double ikat). Double ikat is an extremely complex technique, requiring exacting eyes and hands of both dyer and weaver. This sample is likely a specific variable of kasuri called Yamato-gasuri, which was made in the Yamato area within Nara Prefecture.
Details
- Title
- Textile sample book (Yamato-gasuri mihonchō)
- Role
- Maker
- Accession Number
- 2019.20.90
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murray et al. 2018, pl. 109
- Curator Approved
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