Furoshiki

Furoshiki

Japan Textiles furoshiki

This silk furoshiki is almost square. The background is a deep purple with a variety of family crests MON scattered around the periphery of the furoshiki leaving a space in the middle. The MON are beige lavender and white in color. Some MON are a stylized version in a tie-dyed KANOKO style. The furoshiki has some thread imperfections near the middle of the piece and a small hole in one of the corners. Method is in stencil-dye.

1996.010.478