This Japanese boro really is a show stopper, its museum quality! What makes this particular boro stand out is that it is thicker than others we have seen; meaning it has more layers of the beautiful indigo dyed cotton panels. The other thing is its size, its much bigger than the average.
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 sashiko 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.
It will look amazing in the modern home as a throw or a wall hanging.
The size of this Japanese boro is L - 191.5cm, W - 144cm
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