Scroll
1800-1920 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This length of cotton fabric was once part of a bedding cover, or futonji. It is possible that when the cover become worn it was cut up and mounted as a scroll to be displayed in the home, but this re-use of the fabric may have been carried out in the twentieth century by a dealer conscious of the growing popularity of textiles of this kind among collectors.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Resist-dyed and stencilled cotton |
| Brief description | Tex, Japan, resist-dyed. Length of resist-dyed and stencilled cotton fabric mounted as a scroll, Japan, 1800-1920 |
| Physical description | Length of cotton fabric with free-hand paste resist stencilled decoration of roundels, mounted as a scroll. The design is of weeping willow (yanagi) and umbrella (kasa) in white, pale blue, pale pink and grey. |
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| Summary | This length of cotton fabric was once part of a bedding cover, or futonji. It is possible that when the cover become worn it was cut up and mounted as a scroll to be displayed in the home, but this re-use of the fabric may have been carried out in the twentieth century by a dealer conscious of the growing popularity of textiles of this kind among collectors. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.216-1964 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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