Nara madness continues
Feb. 25th, 2012 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyOK. Panels for the underskirt have been hem stitched along both long sides, which means no raw edges to deal with when it comes time to pleat the tiers together. In a fit of need-to-paint-stuff, I decided it would be cool to have some sort of faux rokechi dyed effect on said underskirt (which means I could wear it by itself as well as with the green overskirt). The fabric is a nice shade of yellow, so any paint effect on it in white will be fairly subtle. I'm kind of liking these, taken from an 8th c. floor covering* in the Tokyo National Museum (scan is from Jodai Gire: 7th and 8th Century Textiles in Japan from the Shoso-in and Horyu-ji by Kaneo Matsumoto).
*Yes, I realize a floor covering is not a skirt, however, there is an extant rokechi dyed skirt in the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibition catalogue from about the same period, found in one of the tombs at Turfan, China. The designs and technique are somewhat similar, even though the skirt construction is completely different from the pleated tiers in the Nuikata reconstruction I'm going with.
Image has been scanned and scan has been printed, stencil blanks have been found, scan and blank have been taped to cutting mat. Now where the HELL is my Sharpie?
*Yes, I realize a floor covering is not a skirt, however, there is an extant rokechi dyed skirt in the Secrets of the Silk Road exhibition catalogue from about the same period, found in one of the tombs at Turfan, China. The designs and technique are somewhat similar, even though the skirt construction is completely different from the pleated tiers in the Nuikata reconstruction I'm going with.
Image has been scanned and scan has been printed, stencil blanks have been found, scan and blank have been taped to cutting mat. Now where the HELL is my Sharpie?
