Patchwork quilt cover

Object Details

• Description

  Quilt cover hand-stitched together from fragments of used cotton textiles--a practice in the Tohoku region of northeast Japan, where it is too cold for growing cotton, and rags were bought from peddlers coming from the south to be reused. The fragments in this quilt include unusual choices: a "Tengu Flour" bag, a flag or door curtain bearing a stencil-dyed crest, and a fragment previously used to wrap a package mailed to Date county, Fukushima prefecture.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Tohoku, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the Jeffrey Krauss Collection of Japanese Textiles

• Type

  Costume and Textile

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1950s

• Place

  Japan, Tohoku

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art, Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Costume, Textiles