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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Japan (made)

This length of cotton fabric was once part of a a bedding cover, or futonji, created to celebrate a marriage. Such textiles were decorated with auspicious images chosen to bestow good fortune on the newly-wed couple. This fabric is patterned with the image of a tortoise. In Japn this animal is a symbol of longevity and is believed to carry good wishes on its back.

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Category	Textiles
Object type	Length
Materials and techniques	Resist-dyed and stencilled cotton Cotton Resist Dyed
Brief description	Length of resist-dyed and stencilled cotton, Japan, 1800-1920
Physical description	Length of cotton fabric for a ceremonial wedding bedding (futon) cover with free-hand paste-resist decoration (tsutsugaki) of three roundels. One containing bamboo, second tortoise and the third mandarin flowers, all stencilled in grey, pink, white and pale blue on indigo dyed ground.
Dimensions	Length: 138.5cm Width: 31.7cm Width: 31cm Length: 52.5in Width: 1.125in
Subject depicted	Tortoise
Summary	This length of cotton fabric was once part of a a bedding cover, or futonji, created to celebrate a marriage. Such textiles were decorated with auspicious images chosen to bestow good fortune on the newly-wed couple. This fabric is patterned with the image of a tortoise. In Japn this animal is a symbol of longevity and is believed to carry good wishes on its back.
Collection	East Asia Collection
Accession number	T.134-1968

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Record created	February 12, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O24618/length-unknown/

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