Medium:

Cotton

Dimensions:

H x W: 128 × 190 cm (50 3/8 × 74 13/16 in)

Type:

Costume and Textile

Origin:

Tohoku, Japan

Date:

early 20th century

Period:

Meiji, Taisho, or Showa era

Description:

Quilt cover hand-stitched together from fragments of used cotton textiles--a practice in the Tohoku region of northeast Japan, where it is too cold for growing cotton, and rags were bought from peddlers coming from the south to be reused. Many of the fragments are of handspun, handwoven indigo-dyed cotton of beautiful quality.

Topic:

Meiji era (1868 - 1912)  Search this

Taisho era (1912 - 1926)  Search this

Showa era (1926 - 1989)  Search this

Japan  Search this

Japanese Art  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of the Jeffrey Krauss Collection of Japanese Textiles

Accession Number:

S2016.3

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

Data Source:

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3426a80cb-b698-4d73-9bf2-465cd6abc17d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:fsg_S2016.3