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Indigos
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Indigo Boro,
made from indigo patches dating from the 19th century
Futon cover, Japan
Measures: 61inches by 50 inches or 127 cms x155cm's
 
Japan
 
     
     
 
Indigo strip woven and resist dyed cotton cloth.
known as Ndop Cloth
Baminiki People, Grassland of Cameroon, Mid 20th century Measurements: 2 metres 30cm's x.95 cm's
 
Cameroon
 
     
     
     
 
A Japanese Indigo Boro. (front)
Composed in 1900 but made of earlier fragments of shibori,katazome and kasuri
Measurements:95inches x 25inches or 250cm's x 640cm's.
 
Japan
 
     
     
     
 
A Japanese Indigo Boro. (back)
Composed in 1900 but made of earlier fragments of shibori,katazome and kasuri
Measurements:95inches x 25inches or 250cm's x 640cm's.
 
Japan
 
     
     
 
A Japanese Indigo Boro.
Mostly indigo plaid.
Measurements: 64 inches X 68inches or 1630 x 1730 cm's
 
Japan
 
     
     
     
 
Indigo clamp resist cotton panel.
Japan 20th century.
Measures:42ins square or 107 cm's square.
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd. century
 
Japan
 
     
     
 
Indigo cotton cloth with a panel of slit weaving
known as Yoraba lace. Yoruba people, Nigeria Mid 19th century. Measurements: 140cms x180 cms
SOLD
 
Nigeria
 
     
     
     
 
Indigo strip woven and resist dye cotton cloth.
known as Ndop Cloth
Baminiki People, Grassland of Cameroon, Mid 20th century Measurements: 220 cms X 22 cms.
 
Cameroon
 
     
     
     
 
Indigo cotton blanket
Dogon People, Mali, Mid. 20th century
Measurements: 230 cm's by 140 cm's
 
Mali
 
     
     
     
Clamp resist indigo shibori
Wool gauze kimono
Early 20th century
SOLD
 
Japan
 
     
     

Arishi Shibori (vertical lines)
Indigo on cotton.
Tashio period. 1912 - 1926
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd.
Measurements: 33 cms x 125 cms - 13 inches x 49 inches

SOLD

 
Japan
 
     
     
Ori-nui Shibori (meandering stream)
Indigo on cotton.
Tashio period. 1912 - 1926
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd.
Measurements: 66 cms x 102 cms - 26 inches x 40 inches
 
Japan
     
     
Clamp resist sekka Shibori
2nd quarter of the 20th Century
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd, page 119
Measurements: 91 cms x 91 cms - 36 inches square
SOLD
 
Japan