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Back roads to far towns : Basho's travel journal
Matsuo, BashÅ (1644-1694); Corman, Cid; Kamaike, Susumu
[1986]
Includes Japanese text.
Kokoro : hints and echoes of Japanese inner life
Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)
1972
Reprint of the 1896 ed.
fabric length
Tatsumura Institute of Textile Art (1938-)
mid 20th-late 20th Century
Length of weft-faced silk (or synthetic silk) brocade depicting a woman in a robe decorated with chrysanthemums, blossom and other flowers on a red ground, a green waistband has a design of linked gem...
stencil
early 19th-mid 20th Century
This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, included Japanese ideographs (kanji) and, currently unidentified, arcing motifs on a background of irregular mesh. The stencil is constructed ...
crepe fragment
1840-1920
A piece of plain woven dark blue crepe fabric. This five-colour, printed design is of books with text and motifs including bush clover, fishing net [amime], possibly incense markers [genjiko], waves ...
stencil
early 19th-mid 20th Century
This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, has an all over pattern of fundo tsunagi - a tesselating pattern derived from fundo (weights), one of the Japanese Myriad Treasures. The ste...
coaster
A padded coaster with different designs on each side. One side is a brown plaid and the other a brocade landscape or garden with figures in kimono, with gold thread. The coaster is packaged in plas...
damask fragment
before 2000
Fragment of damask woven fabric with patterning in red, green, white and silver on a red ground. The fragment depicts a cockerel in flight surrounded by scrolling vegetation and a spray of buds and f...
Paper Cone
late 19th-mid 20th Century
A stiffened paper cone used in Japan to draw a freehand design on fabric with a rice starch resist paste before dyeing, a technique known as tsutsugaki. Sometimes these are used in combination with s...
KTM Original Samples for Courtaulds (Vol.2) June 1988
Courtaulds Ltd.; Kawashima Textile Manufacturers Ltd.
1988
A brown binder with label on spine and printed text on cover, containing thirty-seven cards with samples of woven pile-fabrics attached. The samples have are unpatterned or have patterning of stripes...
stencil
early 19th-mid 20th Century
This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, depicts three 'hairy tailed' turtles on a background of ornamental waves. The stencil is constructed from several layers of hand made Japanese...
stencil
early 19th-mid 20th Century
This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, depicts vertical stripes of: ?text, hexagon and diamond patterning, and triple lines The stencil is constructed from several layers of hand ma...