Meiji Period Japanese Indigo Framed Boro Kimono

This beautiful Kimono as been created through the process of Boro, where fabric is saved, mended and then remade into different fabrics and pieces. The fabric is a lovely range of deeps blue and purple cotton. It has been professionally mounted onto a frame, creating it into a stunning piece of artistry. The kimono can be removed from the frame and neither the frame nor the Kimono will be damaged.

We have aged this boro at approximately late 19th Century but believe that some of the patches may be as old as 200 years.

The history of the boro isn't particularly glamourous...'A traditional patchwork style, boro grew out of necessity as opposed to aesthetics. Meaning “ragged” or “tattered,” the boro style was favoured by nineteenth and early twentieth-century rural Japanese. Cotton was not common in Japan until well into the twentieth century, so when a kimono or sleeping futon cover started to run thin in a certain area, the family’s women patched it with a small piece of scrap fabric using Sachiko stitching.' Now the style is used widely in the fashion industry.

What's so cool is that each patch has certain point in history, an heirloom passed onto the next generation will have sowed another patch on when another one had worn away.

Measurements are as follows: W 150cm - D 2.5cm - H - 167cm

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