Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 207 Marigold Art Quilt return to the Gift Card

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white transfer / tracing paper by Olympus of Japan

22" x 22" (56cm x 56cm)

Crib - 37" x 49"

Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 207 Marigold Art Quilt return to the Gift CardTsumugi is an obsolete, costly, narrow Japanese silk fabric made in the following fashion: first, a coarse cloth is woven with cotton wrap and thick silk filling; second, this fabric is run through a dye vat several times; third, it is buried in the ground until the cotton warp has rotted; lastly, the silk is rewoven into a fabric. The result is a mottled design produced by undyed places in the silk yarn where the cotton warp prevented dye