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Antique shibori haori with dyed sayagata in purple-blue and white

£65.00 £30.00

Antique shibori haori with dyed sayagata in purple-blue and white

Antique silk haori jacket. Lovely blue with white shibori sayagata pattern. 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.

This haori is in excellent condition for its age. It measures 80 cm long, 61 cm from sleeve edge to sleeve edge, and the sleeve drop is 46 cm.

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Antique shibori haori with dyed sayagata in purple-blue and white

Antique silk haori jacket. Lovely blue with white shibori sayagata pattern. 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.

This haori is in excellent condition for its age. It measures 80 cm long, 61 cm from sleeve edge to sleeve edge, and the sleeve drop is 46 cm.

 

• 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.

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Weight .6 kg