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A small winter UCHIKAKE which seems to fit the dolls in this series. The UCHIKAKE is made of a variety of fabrics. The collar is a fine black velvet. The inner lining is a beige silk gauze. The upper three fourths of the UCHIKAKE seems to be made of…

Handmade doll's futon is made of light silk fabric. The edges are folded to the front and frame a white rough synthetic fabric with motif of old style chinese characters in black. Stitching is in white thread. Yellow embroidery thread is knotted in…

Handmade doll's futon is made of light silk fabric. The edges are folded to the front and frame a deep purple fabric with a lotus motif woven into the cloth in gray yellow pink green and dark beige. Stitching is by hand in white thread. The front…

Handmade almost square piece made of a section of woven straw used for TATAMI mats which is folded and sewn together in wide zig-zags on the back. The edges that are not folded are trimmed with green cotton strips sewn on with natural fiber. The…

A hand-made pillow in the doll series to match its futon set. A pillow of pink silk with abstract plaid weave in light pink is filled with barley. The pillow is accented with yellow embroidery thread which is knotted at each end of the cylindrical…

White cotton terry cloth tenugui hemmed at the top and bottom along a blue stripe. 2 thin blue lines and 1 thick blue line decorate top and bottom sections. 3 KOKESHI decorate the lower half of the piece. A small boy KOKESHI with a green stripe haori…

This tenugui in indigo is not hemmed at the left and right edges. The design is in a wax resist method of 5 faces of KOKESHI in red white and black. Each face has differnt styles of painted faces and headwear. There is a motif of a KOKESHI in brown…

This tenugui is off the bolt (sideways) and the left and right edges are not hemmed. The scene on the piece is of spring and done in the wax-resist method. To the left are a series of TORII gates signifying entry into or exit out of a sacred location…

This tenugui is hemmed on the top and bottom edges but not on the left or right edges. The cloth is off-white with a Japanese summer evening scene in the center of the piece in a wax resist method. The background of the scene is colored in blue-grey.…

None of the edges are hemmed. The design is in a wax-resist method. The sky and background are gray dyed on white cotton. Most of the cloth is dominated with a design of traditional homes fenced in by rock and KAWARA (baked tile) walls. The scene…