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Tsujigahana, bitches!
Dec. 27th, 2011 05:21 pmThe hysterical squeeing may have been audible in your time zone. My sister chose this off my Amazon wishlist and it arrived today.
http://www.amazon.com/Tsujigahana-Flower-Japanese-Textile-Arts/dp/0870117157/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325033714&sr=8-1
Obviously I have yet to read the whole thing, but it's full of glorious color plates of tsujigahana kosode, dobuku and textile fragments from the 15th through early 17th century, many I have never seen before. (That's saying something, given the number of Japanese textile books I've managed to amass over the years!)
There's a TON of tsujigahana garments in here that were owned and worn by and/or gifted to others by Tokugawa Ieyasu. You know, the Shogun. The real one. The author also thoughtfully included portraits and genre paintings of people wearing similar garments for comparison with the extant examples.
I'm looking forward to going through this in depth once I get my Twelfth Night chores done.
Speaking of which, it feels like the end is in sight on the false layers. I swear, it feels like four separate robes would've been easier than all this minging about with skinny strips of fabric that have to be hemmed individually and fitted together and stitched into a sandwich from the bottom of the eri (collar) all the way around the bottom hem and back up again. I made a good dent this weekend and should be able to finish this week.
http://www.amazon.com/Tsujigahana-Flower-Japanese-Textile-Arts/dp/0870117157/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325033714&sr=8-1
Obviously I have yet to read the whole thing, but it's full of glorious color plates of tsujigahana kosode, dobuku and textile fragments from the 15th through early 17th century, many I have never seen before. (That's saying something, given the number of Japanese textile books I've managed to amass over the years!)
There's a TON of tsujigahana garments in here that were owned and worn by and/or gifted to others by Tokugawa Ieyasu. You know, the Shogun. The real one. The author also thoughtfully included portraits and genre paintings of people wearing similar garments for comparison with the extant examples.
I'm looking forward to going through this in depth once I get my Twelfth Night chores done.
Speaking of which, it feels like the end is in sight on the false layers. I swear, it feels like four separate robes would've been easier than all this minging about with skinny strips of fabric that have to be hemmed individually and fitted together and stitched into a sandwich from the bottom of the eri (collar) all the way around the bottom hem and back up again. I made a good dent this weekend and should be able to finish this week.
