Japanese Wool Fabric, Hishi Pattern ceramics known as a ko dansu

known as a ko dansu

Made from hinoki (cypress) and kiri (paulownia) wood

A Japanese merchant’s storage cabinet (choba dansu)

often symbolizing beauty

Japanese Wool Fabric, Hishi Pattern ceramics known as a ko dansuA piece of Japanese Wool Fabric, red and salmon orange colour with a Japanese Hishi (ukiyo e kimono) pattern. Traditional Japanese kimono are made with bolts of fabric called tanmono, meaning simply fabric roll. Each tanmono is between 12 15 metres long, but only 36cm wide as kimono are made up of panels in that width. These fabric rolls are unique and it is rare to find two exactly the same, which is why vintage kimono silk is so well loved around