Antique Japanese 19th Century Textile - Katazome Indigo 48"x56" #67 Modern art This is a vintage Chinese

This is a vintage Chinese late marble or hard igneous stone name stamp known as an inkan

This chest has been well used yet well loved

Made in the Meiji era (late 1800's)

and rockwork — executed in a loose ink-wash manner with grey

each panel painted in the kachō-ga (花鳥画) bird-and-flower tradition: botan (牡丹

Antique Japanese 19th Century Textile - Katazome Indigo 48"x56" #67 Modern art This is a vintage ChineseThis exquisite piece of 100+ year old antique Japanese cotton fabric features a stencil dyed cotton 4 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 showcases stylized peony flower and arabesque designs all rendered in beautiful indigo hues. Perfect for collectors of Japanese textiles