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Antique reddish purple silk haori sayagata all shibori

£90.00 £40.00

Antique reddish purple silk haori sayagata all shibori

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Antique reddish purple silk haori sayagata all shibori

A very pretty antique haori jacket, in a purplish red colour with an all over shibori sayagata pattern.

It is in excellent condition for it’s age. It measures 93 cm long, the wingspan is 62 cm, and the sleeve drop is 64 cm.

This is a technique that takes many hours of intensive labour to tie and dye, and the resulting pattern has a characteristic variation in the design that clearly shows it was hand crafted.

Please look at the photos for more info on condition.

 Haori: A kimono shaped jacket, designed to be worn on top of a kimono. Originally worn by men only; women were allowed to wear them after the Meiji era and women’s ones became all the rage in Taisho era (1912-1926). Haori are versatile garments, as they translate well into western-world outfits too, looking good when worn either dressed up for the evening or dressed down with jeans

• Sayagata:  the manji is often found as part of a repeating pattern. One common pattern, called sayagata in Japanese, is made of of interlocking manji, left- and right-facing manji joined by lines. As the negative space between the lines has a distinctive shape, the sayagata pattern is sometimes called the “key fret” motif in English.

• Shiborizome: More often known as just shibori. An intricate tie-dye method of making a pattern on fabric. Tiny sections of the fabric are tied or gathered and stitched before it is dyed. The bound area does not absorb the dye, so, when the thread is removed, it leaves a pattern of white dots. A completely shibori kimono can take an entire year to produce. Shibori is greatly prized by the Japanese, who are aware of how painstaking it is to create. Shibori has been made around the 4th century B.C.

 

Additional information

Weight .85 kg