Japan / Circa 1900-1930s
Size : W1510 D10 H1555 mm
Item Number : 16_03
Price Upon Request
An antique Japanese “Boro” textile, composed of layered and patched fragments of cloth from different periods, entirely reinforced with delicate sashiko stitching.
Originally used as utilitarian household fabric — likely for clothing, bedding, or daily domestic use — this piece bears the quiet traces of a long life: fading indigo, worn surfaces, repairs, tears, and patches accumulated through generations of careful preservation and reuse.
The spontaneous combination of striped, kasuri, plaid, and indigo-dyed textiles results in a remarkably abstract composition, evoking the sensibility of contemporary textile art and modern painting.
The dense hand-stitched sashiko running across the entire surface creates subtle rhythm, texture, and depth beyond its practical purpose of reinforcement. When displayed on a wall, the textile possesses an almost painterly presence — as though time itself had been stitched into cloth.
Estimated to date from the late Meiji to early Showa period
(circa 1900s–1930s).
A deeply evocative example of Japanese folk textile culture and the philosophy of beauty born from use, repair, and endurance.
