Post by bovil on Jul 14, 2010 20:41:15 GMT -5
I figured this was worth a new thread.
Between myself and Makiwara-dono, we have finally found evidence that 8th century sashiko isn't mythical. I found a well-footnoted reference from a British sashiko exhibit catalog that had useful hints and Makiwara found what appears to be the appropriate matching image in Jodai Gire.
Now that doesn't look like the Edo-period folk craft of remaking and reinforcing fabric with decorative running stitch. It's not, among other things, indigo and white. It's not decorative. The authors/translators don't use the term "sashiko" when describing it.
It is, however, an early Japanese funzo-e kesa dedicated to the Shoso-in in AD 756 by Empress Komyo. Its layers of torn and shredded fabric are held together by parallel lines of running stitch (those little purple "dots"). It is, very simply, the remaking of scrap cloth into a new whole using running stitch. Technically, it has the aspects of sashiko.
This is very clearly not documentation that supports patterned and geometric running stitch for SCA-period items. It is, though, a really cool opening for folks doing Buddhist personas.
For more images, check out Makiwara-dono's other scans:
www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/4788791544/
www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/4788163239/
Between myself and Makiwara-dono, we have finally found evidence that 8th century sashiko isn't mythical. I found a well-footnoted reference from a British sashiko exhibit catalog that had useful hints and Makiwara found what appears to be the appropriate matching image in Jodai Gire.
Now that doesn't look like the Edo-period folk craft of remaking and reinforcing fabric with decorative running stitch. It's not, among other things, indigo and white. It's not decorative. The authors/translators don't use the term "sashiko" when describing it.
It is, however, an early Japanese funzo-e kesa dedicated to the Shoso-in in AD 756 by Empress Komyo. Its layers of torn and shredded fabric are held together by parallel lines of running stitch (those little purple "dots"). It is, very simply, the remaking of scrap cloth into a new whole using running stitch. Technically, it has the aspects of sashiko.
This is very clearly not documentation that supports patterned and geometric running stitch for SCA-period items. It is, though, a really cool opening for folks doing Buddhist personas.
For more images, check out Makiwara-dono's other scans:
www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/4788791544/
www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/4788163239/
