1960s - 1970s
This type of ikat pattern requires 30-40 steps in order to complete the length of cloth and it may have to be woven 'twice'. The dark brown colour is typical of Oshima-tsumugi and is dyed with wheel hawthorn (umbellata) up to thirty times in order to obtain a deeper colour as well as being dyed ...
TRC 2022.0824
Kimono
Textile Research Centre
Silk
Hand produced ikat