KAMIMURA GALLERY
Kamimura Gallery
#783
Fire-fighter's hood with twelve layers of protection.
Quilted cotton cloth; made from layers of several pieces of cotton cloth one over another and stitching them together with cotton thread to give strength to the textile. This technique is called Sashiko stitches and it waas very hard to pass a needle through the thick pieces of cloth and this reinforced the cloth absorbed water easily and safe from flames while fighting fires. Dyed with the indigo blue and freehand paste-resist decoration (Tsutsugaki).
Size: 77 cm long
19th century
Quilted cotton cloth; made from layers of several pieces of cotton cloth one over another and stitching them together with cotton thread to give strength to the textile. This technique is called Sashiko stitches and it waas very hard to pass a needle through the thick pieces of cloth and this reinforced the cloth absorbed water easily and safe from flames while fighting fires. Dyed with the indigo blue and freehand paste-resist decoration (Tsutsugaki).
Size: 77 cm long
19th century
I-gumi, Bunzou inTsutsugaki
inside view of the hood
SOLD