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Textile, Yuki Tsumugi
This is a Textile. It was collaborator: Junichi Arai. It is dated 1988 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is warp: hand-spun silk (tsumugi) wrapped with reeled silk; weft: hand-spun silk (tsumugi) and its technique is tied-resist dyeing (warp ikat or kasuri) on plain weave. It is a part of the Textiles department.
This extraordinary kimono length transitions over its forty-five foot span from gray at one end to black at the other, creating a striking diagonal composition. The flawless line of the diagonal and the evenness of the gray color, the result of crossing white warps with black wefts, is a testament to the skill of the dyer and weaver.
The design is created in the kasuri, or warp ikat, technique. White warps were tightly bound in one-inch intervals, with additional warps added in each interval as the binding progressed. Japanese textile designer Junichi Arai, who was inspired by the modernism of a kimono from 1910, said, “I drew the design as if I were cutting a tree with a single stroke of an ax. It may be the longest single kasuri motif ever made.” The abstract pattern allows for many different layouts when cut for a kimono.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled From Gray to Black.
It is credited Gift of Jun Okuzawa, Representative of Yuki Tsumugi Producers Association.
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Its dimensions are
H x W: 1376.7 x 52.7 cm (542 x 20 3/4 in.)
Cite this object as
Textile, Yuki Tsumugi; Collaborator: Junichi Arai (Japanese, 1932 - 2017); Japan; warp: hand-spun silk (tsumugi) wrapped with reeled silk; weft: hand-spun silk (tsumugi); H x W: 1376.7 x 52.7 cm (542 x 20 3/4 in.); Gift of Jun Okuzawa, Representative of Yuki Tsumugi Producers Association; 1989-99-1
