Yoroidan Tesuji and Boushi Shibori Tenugui

Yoroidan Tesuji and Boushi Shibori Tenugui**If you are interested in a sold out tenugui, please email info@shibori. com to request a notification when it will be in stock. Production and delivery of certain tenugui can take up to one month from Arimatsu, Japan. Hand pleated resist & capped resist in bands Technique: Tesuji Shibori Resisted stripes created by continuous rows of hand pleating before binding evenly around a rope Boushi Shibori Capped motif binding thread resist. Process

**If you are interested in a sold out tenugui, please email [email protected] to request a notification when it will be in stock. Production and delivery of certain tenugui can take up to one month from Arimatsu, Japan.

Hand pleated-resist & capped resist in bands

Technique: Tesuji Shibori - Resisted stripes created by continuous rows of hand-pleating before binding evenly around a rope  / Boushi Shibori - Capped motif binding thread resist. Process illustrations are from the book “Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing”  by Wada, Rice, and Barton. (c)1983

Pattern: Yoroidan -  Stripes (literally “great armor”), derived from yoroi or  Ō-yoroi, a type of plated samurai armor from feudal Japan. ' Ō-yoroi were visually recognizable from the horizontally striped pattern created by plated scales laced horizontally over an armor plate. The stripe design and colors of the scales often represented a samurai’s rank and clan.

Color: Indigo/White

Approximately 1m x 35cm (39 x 13in)

100% Cotton

Handmade in Arimatsu, Japan

Tenugui are scarf-size, all-purpose towels made of lightweight cotton, used in Japan for centuries and recently popularized and collected because of their beautiful graphic designs.

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Ukiyo-e example: Yoshitoshi (Pre-1892)