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Vintage Japanese Textiles:
Deadstock 1990's Cotton Kimono Fabric

Promotional Sumo Wrestler Fabric (Sumotori)
Yokozuna: Waka no Hana & Taka no Hana

1. Catalog# 4902-2: Sold by panel
15.5" X 1.5 yds
(39.37cm x 1.37m)

US$10.00


2. Catalog# 4902-1: 1 Bolt, 12yds(11m)
Enough for 1 long summer kimono (yukata)
US$35.00

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(Outside USA S/I discounted)

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Above: About 3/4yds (.68m) length

This is a yukata (summer kimono) cotton made by the Futago Yama Sumo stable celebrating great Yokozuna Sumo Wrestlers of the past: Waka no Hana and Takano Hana. We have 2 bolts of this: our item # 4902-2 is sold in1.5yard pieces @$10/panel. We are selling the second, 4902-1 as an entire bolt @$35.00.

Fabric is 15.5 inch wide and is a lightweight deadstock cotton (new but unsold stock) estimated from the 1990's; The color is a light purple, with hint of plum, with black stripes which run horizontally, and also form blocks creating a checkerboard background field (see close-ups).

This is a cotton originally was intended to be used to make summer kimono (called a yukata); Fabric is strong, like new, still firm; colors have not faded.

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