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8015: 1960s Deadstock Ohshima Tsumugi Silk,Black, Solid Pixels,38 in,Authenticated

8015:1960s Ohshima Tsumugi,38in. honba ohshima

Traditional Japanese Textiles:

Authenticated Amami Ohshima Tsumugi Mfr:

Deadstock 1960's Ohshima Tsumugi (Pongee) Silk Fabric
Solid Black Filled with Pixels in geometric tight grid

Catalog# 8015

Width: 14.5 inches / 36.83cm
Length: 38 inches / 96.52 cm

US$20.00 per piece Plus Shipping

Item Details and Description

Fabric History/Pedigree: 1960s kimono fabric from deadstock rolls (unused 'new' from another time.); Factory authenticated, as "Honba Ohshima" (Translated as :Main Ohshima Factory, or, Authentic Ohshima Factory).

This is an Ohshima tsumugi silk from Amami Islands, Japan. Details on this part of Japan's special pongee silk-making process can be found on the National Foundation for Promoting the National Costume of Japan website, which explains the natural plant dyes and mud etc. used in making Ohshima Tsumugi, quoted here:

Characteristics: A plain woven silk fabric with pre-dyed scoured threads both for warp and weft. The color is refined and calm and the fabric is soft and difficult to wrinkle. Threads are dyed with plant dyes such as "Techiki" (Raphilolepis umbellata) and indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) with a technique, peculiar only to "Oshima Tsumugi," called "Ori Jime." As a variety, an additional treatment is made to the dyed thread by dipping them in muddy water. It is "Doro(mud) Zome(dyeing)." There are several kinds of "Oshima Tsumugi":"Doro Oshima," "Ai(indigo) Oshima," "Doro Ai Oshima," "Iro(color) Oshima" and "Natsu(summer) Oshima."

Fabric Description Details:

This 1960s deadstock silk is plant and/or mud-dyed, a Light-medium weight, minimally translucent & slightly stiff Ohshima Tsumugi silk, black with hint of indigo background fabric with interwoven pixels as microdots in diagonally arrayed,symmetrical tight grid;There is only slight sheen to this fabric; the pixels are off-white-silver.

The start of this roll shows interwoven flags and Ohshima authentic marks as described above; the first order of this fabric will receive the maker's mark front edge of the piece (last images).

Colors: Please use our text color descriptions to complement your sense of the fabric due to differences in contrast and color on different devices.

Condition: EXCELLENT.

Recommended for making scarf/accessories.

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