Quilt Cover
late 19th century (made)
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This length of fabric, originally part of a bedding cover, has been patterned using a method known as kasuri. In this technique, sections of yarn are bound or tightly compressed prior to being dyed. The dye does not penetrate these areas when the skein is dipped in the dye bath. The binding is then removed, leaving a yarn that is partly white and partly coloured. This is then used as the warp and / or the weft, and a pattern emerges as the cloth is woven, great skill being required on the part of the dyer, and the weaver, to ensure that the design appears as planned. The geometic pattern on this fabric represents rice measures.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton, dyed and printed |
| Brief description | Futon quilt cover of cotton, dyed and printed, Katanose, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, late 19th century |
| Physical description | Futon quilt cover of cotton, dyed and printed. With a Masu and geometrical design in navy and pale blue on white. The design consists of small white squares forming interesting diagonal lines. There are larger white squares at the intersections. This pattern forms the background to a checkerboard design of squares within squares. |
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| Summary | This length of fabric, originally part of a bedding cover, has been patterned using a method known as kasuri. In this technique, sections of yarn are bound or tightly compressed prior to being dyed. The dye does not penetrate these areas when the skein is dipped in the dye bath. The binding is then removed, leaving a yarn that is partly white and partly coloured. This is then used as the warp and / or the weft, and a pattern emerges as the cloth is woven, great skill being required on the part of the dyer, and the weaver, to ensure that the design appears as planned. The geometic pattern on this fabric represents rice measures. |
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| Accession number | T.326-1960 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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