Piece from a Kosode with Camellias and Fence

Japan

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The fence with camellias must have zig-zagged its way up the body of the kosode from which this fragment came. The kanoko spots of both the camellias and fence appear to have been produced with a stencil, not by tying in the shibori technique. Although stencil-dyed kanoko has sometimes been thought to be related to sumptuary laws of the early 1680s, an earlier securely dated kanoko robe of the mid-seventeenth century shows clear evidence of having been patterned by stencil.

Piece from a Kosode with Camellias and Fence, Resist-dyed silk satin damask (rinzu) embroidered with silk and metallic thread, Japan

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