Antique Japanese 19th Century Textile - Katazome Indigo 37"x72" #79 Tea Accessories This is a vintage Japanese

This is a vintage Japanese ceramic bowl known as a chawan (tea bowl) used in Japanese chado (tea ceremony)

1596-1868) tsuba (handguard) for a samurai’s Katana or Wakazashi

it’s thick walls trap more heat during the fill winter months

Families and guests sit around the kotatsu with their legs underneath the blanket

4cm) thick

Antique Japanese 19th Century Textile - Katazome Indigo 37"x72" #79 Tea Accessories This is a vintage JapaneseThis exquisite piece of 100+ year old antique Japanese hand woven cotton fabric features a stencil dyed cotton 3 panel fabric created using the traditional katazome dyeing technique. Katazome is a Japanese method of dyeing fabrics using a rice flour resist paste applied through a stencil carved from mulberry paper. The fabric, which was probably once used as a kakebuton (a kind of bed spread) showcases geometric and floral patterns rendered in an