Dark green kimono with wax-resist white lines / Artist Unknown, Japan
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.388
- Title
- Dark green kimono with wax-resist white lines
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- white silk with tye-dyed mottled green ground and wax resist white lines
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1985
- Credit Line
- Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
- Dimensions
- 158.5 cm x 135 cm (62 3/8 in. x 53 1/8 in.)
- Century
- second half of 20th century
- Physical Description
- White silk crepe with mottled green ground and white lines achieved through hand-applied discharge paste (hako roketsu). Lining is plain weave silk, white above and green below.
- Subject Matter
- This kimono required a labor intensive technique called shibori, in which hundreds of hours would have been spent tying up each small section where white can be seen on the fabric before immersing it in dye. Shibori textiles are very expensive due to the time and skill required to produce them.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2005/1.388
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"Dark green kimono with wax-resist white lines; Artist Unknown, Japan." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2005-sl-1.388/go.2003.18.64.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
