#antique fabric

[mamedorilabo]

sashiko stitch

Hello,April. Time goes by quickly. Spring has come at my hometown. Sakura are a special flower for Japanese.

let's get back to the today's topics. Today, I would like to introduce a new works.

I recently made a bag from an old stained jute bag, dyed with persimmon tannin and reinforced with many stitches. Sashiko is an old Japanese technique to strengthen cloth with many stitches. I used up the old jute bags without any scraps. It is made entirely from vegetable materials, so it go back to the soil.

This bag is hand quilted with cotton inside. The handles of this bag are stuffed with old cloth. All the cloth of this bag is recycled from very old items. It takes a very long time, but we have created a very beautiful, durable, and environmentally friendly bag. See you later!

[natashagraceart]

Tapestry. Photography © Natasha Grace. All Rights Reserved.

[myetsyworld]

SOLD- One of the most beautiful fabrics I have ever come across, and have been lucky enough to find it twice! This was a huge piece of fabric that had been made into a large bed sheet. Early 1900

[brocantevintage]

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Child's Sock from Egypt, c.250-350 CE: this colorful sock is nearly 1,700 years old

This sock was discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus. It was likely created for a child during the late Roman period, c.250-350 CE.

Similar-looking socks from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period have also been found at several other sites throughout Egypt; these socks often have colorful, striped patterns with divided toes, and they were crafted out of wool using a technique known as nålbinding.

Above: a similar child's sock from Antinoöpolis, c.250-350 CE

The sock depicted above was created during the same period, and it was found in a midden heap (an ancient rubbish pit) in the city of Antinoöpolis. A multispectral imaging analysis of this sock yielded some interesting results back in 2018, as this article explains:

... analysis revealed that the sock contained seven hues of wool yarn woven together in a meticulous, stripy pattern. Just three natural, plant-based dyes—madder roots for red, woad leaves for blue and weld flowers for yellow—were used to create the different color combinations featured on the sock, according to Joanne Dyer, lead author of the study.

In the paper, she and her co-authors explain that the imaging technique also revealed how the colors were mixed to create hues of green, purple and orange: In some cases, fibers of different colors were spun together; in others, individual yarns went through multiple dye baths.

Such intricacy is pretty impressive, considering that the ancient sock is both “tiny” and “fragile."

Given its size and orientation, the researchers believe it may have been worn on a child’s left foot.

Above: another child's sock from Al Fayyum, c.300-500 CE

The ancient Egyptians employed a single-needle looping technique, often referred to as nålbindning, to create their socks. Notably, the approach could be used to separate the big toe and four other toes in the sock—which just may have given life to the ever-controversial socks-and-sandals trend.

Sources & More Info:

Manchester Museum: Child's Sock from Oxyrhynchus

British Museum: Sock from Antinoupolis

Royal Ontario Museum: Sock from Al Fayyum

Smithsonian Magazine: 1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion

The Guardian: Imaging Tool Unravels Secrets of Child's Sock from Ancient Egypt

PLOS ONE Journal: A Multispectral Imaging Approach Integrated into the Study of Late Antique Textiles from Egypt

National Museums Scotland: The Lost Sock

[eirene]

The Signal, 1899 John William Godward

[vintagehomecollection]

The bedrooms in the house have all been treated very differently. Here, the white panels of the walls and wardrobe have been outlined in a blue wash, while the French doors, which were added by the McDonnells when all the windows were enlarged in 1974, allow sunlight to stream in across the floorboards.

In an Irish House, 1988

[beary-good-finds]

❤️ Antique patterned red fabric ❤️

From the book of Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns (1991)

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Fabric sample book, 1938-49, Germany.

[mollyvega]

I need some help with this floral babe. While pawing through my mother‘s brooch collection I found three that would make a perfect hat for them. Which one should we use?

💙💛💙

[inspiredlivingspaces]

IG houseandgardenuk

[mamedorilabo]

kakishibu(persimmon tunnin)

先日、白が好きと書きましたが、その後、あまり間を置かずにこう書きます。

私は柿渋で染めた色が好きです。

この化学染料にはない、なんともいえない茶色です。 柿渋で染めたものを鉄媒染すると、これまた黒に近い何とも言えない色になります。

The other day I wrote that I like white, and then, without much pause, I write this.

I like the colour dyed with persimmon tannin.

It is an indescribable brown colour that this chemical dye does not have. When dyed with persimmon tannin and then iron-mordanted, the colour also becomes indescribable, almost black.

渋柿を若いうちに潰して水で発酵させた液で染めることを柿渋染めといいます。 渋柿の代表的な利用例は皮革のタンニン鞣しではないでしょうか。

柿渋染めをした布は、耐久性が増し、防腐防虫効果があります。また防水効果もあり、昔の日本では何度も紙に塗り重ねて雨傘にしていたほどです。今でも手ぬぐいなどを染める型紙にも使われています。

Dyeing with liquid made by crushing astringent persimmons when young and fermenting them in water is called persimmon tannin dyeing. A typical example of the use of tannin is tanning of leather. Cloth dyed with persimmon tannin is more durable and has antiseptic and mothproof properties. It also has waterproofing properties, so much so that in old Japan, paper was repeatedly coated with it to make rain umbrellas. Even today, it is used as a stencil for dyeing tenugui.(Please search for “Ise katagami”.

1度目の染めではオレンジがかったピンク色に。それを日光に当てまた染めるを繰り返し色が茶色へと変化します。日に当てるほど深い色になってゆきます。 初めのうちは硬いのですが、着込んでいく事で柔らかくなっていきます。

When first dyed, it turns orangey-pink. It is then exposed to sunlight and dyed again and again until it turns brown. The more it is exposed to sunlight, the darker the colour becomes. The fabric is stiff at first, but becomes softer with use.

そんな大好きな柿渋染めですが、欠点は縫う時にとても硬い事と、なんと言ってもその臭い笑！！ でも安心してください。私の作品は臭いが抜けてから売っています。

I love persimmon tannin dyeing, but its drawbacks are that it is very stiff when sewing and, what can I say, its smell ! My family seems to be very annoyed when I am dyeing:） But don't worry. I sell my work after the smell is gone.

[oldfarmhouse]

𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 ~𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐢𝐫𝐞! 🙌

𝗁𝗍𝗍𝗉s://instagram.com/countrystylemag

[myetsyworld]

SOLD - Fabulous example of French Indienne fabric from the 1800's. Bold stylized flowers and foliage.

[talos-stims]

faye moreau [oc] stimboard with doll-making, sewing and taxidermy in muted tones of black, white, red and purple for @ama-kitkat123!

🧵|🧵|🧵

🧵|🧵|🧵

🧵|🧵|🧵

[spockandawe]

Oh, I forgot to use this picture anywhere! It's been an exhausting, EXHAUSTING spring, including the painting, including the paneling, including a trip to nj to retrieve a pile of furniture, including way too much crochet for human hands to safely endure. But the guest room is coming together! The lips are probably getting evicted to the next guest room over (music/manga room), because the Horrors have faded enough that I'm itching for my next paint job, and I think it's going to be a pink and red palette. Just having one vibrant room in my house makes me so happy already, I simply HAVE to continue

Actually, you know what, have these curio cabinets too, because I'm delighted with how they turned out. More gifted old furniture finally giving me a dignified residence for my knickknacks. Pls note the tasteful heavy bookbinding objects on the bottom shelves definitely because they're pretty and not because I almost tipped these things over more than once before getting them anchored to the walls