[JAPANESE TAMBA-FU COTTON SAMPLES]

Title label: "Mingei (Folk Craft) Tamba - Pattern dyeing section". Japan, about 1930s -1950s.

. An album of 49 hand-woven cotton samples dyed in the katazome (stencil) technique. Pasted on rough paper (lightly browned). Ribbon-bound in original decorated textile-covered boards. Size: 29.5 x 25 cm. Hand-written paper title label on upper cover. Impressive album with lovely samples dyed with indigo blue and some also contain red pigment. The patterns have different flower and bird motifs. Some are lightly faded and a few with light discolouration. Japan has a long tradition of textile art, with each region developing its own special style. Tamba-fu has been traditionally made in Saji district, Hy›go prefecture for hundreds of years. In the late 19th century, tambu-fu clothing went out of fashion but saw a revival in the 1920s as the Mingei movement developed. Unsophisticated but appealing album that probably once belonged to a textile manufacturer or a dyer company.

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Book number: 121540

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie asien, asiatic, textile, design, cotton, pattern, dyeing,