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Indigos
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Sashiko (stitched) furoshiki,
cotton indigo
Taisho-Showa period
Early 20th century, Japan
This example has rare combinations of design.
Measurements 52 inches square,132 cm’s Square
 
Japan
 
     
     
 

This weaving reminds me of the work of Agnes Martin,
whose work has been described as an - ‘essay in discretion on inwardness and silence’

I notice that The Pace Gallery are presenting Martin alongside Navajo weaving in Palo Alto and New York in November.

Indigo weaving, hand spun, hand woven,
two -24 inch loom widths
Yoruba people, Nigeria,
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 72 inches by 48 inches or 183 cm’s x 122cm’s

 
Nigeria
 
     
     
 
Indigo tye dyed, strip woven, wrapper
Cote d’ivoir, mid 20th century
Measurements: 1 metre 16cm's x 1 metre 70cm's
 
Ivory Coast
 
     
     
 
Strip woven resist dyed cotton panel known as ndop cloth.
Baminiki people, Cameroon
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 1metre 20cm's x 2 metres 20cm's
 
Cameroon
 
     
     
 
Indigo cotton Shibori - Ori- nui (meandering stream)
Mid 20th century
Measurements: 87 cm's x 87 cm's
 
Shibori
 
     
     
 
Strip woven cotton indigo and white Fulani blanket

Made in Mali mid 20 th century
Measurement : 1 metre 40 cm's by 850 cm's
 
Mali
     
     
     
 
A Japanese Indigo Boro. (front)
Composed in 1900 but made of earlier fragments of shibori,katazome and kasuri
Measurements:95inches x 25inches or 250cm's x 640cm's.
 
Japan
 
     
     
     
 
A Japanese Indigo Boro. (back)
Composed in 1900 but made of earlier fragments of shibori,katazome and kasuri
Measurements:95inches x 25inches or 250cm's x 640cm's.
 
Japan
 
     
     
 
A Japanese Indigo Boro.
Mostly indigo plaid.
Measurements: 64 inches X 68inches or 1630 x 1730 cm's
 
Japan
     
     
     
 
Indigo clamp resist cotton panel.
Japan 20th century.
Measures:42ins square or 107 cm's square.
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd. century
 
Japan
SOLD
     
     
 
Indigo cotton cloth with a panel of slit weaving
known as Yoraba lace. Yoruba people, Nigeria Mid 19th century. Measurements: 140cms x180 cms
SOLD
 
Nigeria
 
     
     
     
 
Indigo strip woven and resist dye cotton cloth.
known as Ndop Cloth
Baminiki People, Grassland of Cameroon, Mid 20th century Measurements: 220 cms X 22 cms.
 
Cameroon
 
     
     
     
 
Indigo cotton blanket
Dogon People, Mali, Mid. 20th century
Measurements: 230 cm's by 140 cm's
 
Mali
 
     
     
     
Clamp resist indigo shibori
Wool gauze kimono
Early 20th century
SOLD
 
Japan
 
     
     

Arishi Shibori (vertical lines)
Indigo on cotton.
Tashio period. 1912 - 1926
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd.
Measurements: 33 cms x 125 cms - 13 inches x 49 inches

SOLD

 
Japan
 
     
     
Ori-nui Shibori (meandering stream)
Indigo on cotton.
Tashio period. 1912 - 1926
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd.
Measurements: 66 cms x 102 cms - 26 inches x 40 inches
 
Japan
SOLD
     
     
Clamp resist sekka Shibori
2nd quarter of the 20th Century
Lit: Shibori, the inventive Art of Japanese
Shaped Resist Dying by Wado, Kellog-Rice and Barton.
Published by Kondansha International Ltd, page 119
Measurements: 91 cms x 91 cms - 36 inches square
SOLD
 
Japan