HOMESPUN, HANDWOVEN
COTTON WARP AND SILK WEFT
VAT-DYED IN BOTANICAL INDIGO
OVERDYED WITH UKON (TURMERIC)
EARLY/MID 19C The tsumugi hand-plied silk weft would have circumvented
the Edo Shogunate’s sumptuary laws prohibiting the use
of silk in bedding and other household textiles.
HOMESPUN HANDWOVEN COTTON,
RICE-PASTE STENCIL-RESISTED AND
VAT-DYED IN AN UNKNOWN TANNIN-BASED PIGMENT
AND BOTANICAL INDIGO, SURFACE PIGMENTED
WITH STENCILS, MID/LATE 19C