- A pure silk, Japanese komon kimono, in tsumugi silk (wild silk with a slub weave, sometimes called silk pongee), with an igeta pattern and a kasuri style weave. Igeta is the shape of the top of a traditional Japanese well and is a popular Japanese motif. Kasuri is when the thread is dyed multiple colours, prior to weaving, so that, once woven, a pattern appears, kasuri patterns have a slightly fuzzy edge. Komon are everyday, casual wear kimonos, so to have one in expensive wild silk was a way of showing that one had lots of money to spare.
Awase (fully lined).
- Made and bought in Japan
- Type: A komon kimono. This style is considered casual and may be worn around town or dressed up with a formal obi for a restaurant. Both married and unmarried women may wear this type of kimono. The most useful of all the kimono types. Komon kimonos and iro muji kimonos are becoming more and more rare as they are not made much anymore, since kimono makers tend to make only very formal, ornate kimonos and summer lightweight cotton yukata kimonos because very few people in Japan wear kimono all the time nowadays.
Condition:
Excellent
Measurements:
Sleeve end to sleeve end 127cm
Sleeve seam to sleeve seam 63.5cm
Length 157cm
Black Tsumugi Silk Kimono
SKU: wk823
£170.00 Regular Price
£110.50Sale Price
Women's Kimonos 35% off
