Friday, September 24, 2010

NIPPON HANDWEAVES IN KUSAKIZOME DYES by Akira Yamazaki

I received this book as a gift in 1974. It is my treasured possession. Only 200 copies were printed in 1959, mine is No.194.




Asiatic dayflower (tsuukusa)


Saffron (benibana); madder (akane); gardenia (kuchinashi)



Fermented indigo (ai) balls
Sawtooth oak (kunugi)

Red (sappan wood); olive, mountain peach (shibuki); 
black is betel nut palm (binro) and indigo (ai)



Brown dye is gardenia (kuchinashi); 
red is sappan wood (suoh)

Gray is cranes bill geranium (gennoshoko); 
red is sappan wood (suoh)

Maroon is sappan wood (suoh); 
black dyed with indigo (ai) and 
wild sumac (yama-urushi)

Ramie dyed with indigo (ai); tumeric (ukon), 
eulalia grass miscanthus tinctorus (kariyasu) for yellow; 
alder, mountain peach bark and plum 
(han, shibuki and ume) for brown




Plum (ume)

Auburn color, Rosa rugosa (hamanashi); 
black is alder (han) with mountain peach (yamamono)




Gall (fushi or gobaishi); yellow (kuchinashi); 
light purple machilus thunbergi (tamakusu)

Blue (ai); green (ai) and yellow,  
eulalia grass miscanthus tinctorus (kariyasu)

Fermented indigo balls (aidama)




Yellow, gardenia (kuchinashi); red, sappan wood (suoh); 
black, (shibuki, myrica rubia. mountain peach and 
yamamomo, shibuki)




Pomegranate
To be continued....

2 comments:

neki desu said...

thank you thank you for sharing this treasure.

EBriel said...

Beautiful book, thanks for posting it!