by Yoshioka
ISBN: 9784763670557
Sarasa, Printed And Painted Textiles, Sachio Yoshioka (Book)
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Sarasa, Printed and Painted Textiles (Book) by Sachio Yoshioka. Hardcover, Like New, bilingual English/Japanese, 96 pages. 1993.
Sarasa, Printed and Painted Textiles. Sarasa has its origins in the early Edo period (1603 to 1868) when Portuguese maritime traders introduced cotton chintzes they had acquired in India to Japan. These beautiful, exotic chintz textiles quickly became extremely popular among the wealthy samurai and merchant classes. Imported Indian calicos were prohibitively expensive, too expensive to be made into affordable kimonos. Instead, the Japanese cut long lengths of sarasa into small sizes to create small, precious and relatively expensive items such as tea bags, wrapping cloths, small purses, and tea utensil pouches, replacing an earlier preference for Chinese silk.
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