Wrap, tie, unfold, and use again.
A furoshiki is a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth, an everyday textile made to serve different purposes throughout its life.

Japanese vintage fabrics are attracting growing international interest for their distinctive colors, woven patterns, and connections to everyday life. Collectors, designers, and makers appreciate these textiles not simply as old materials, but as expressions of the places and periods they come from.

This cotton furoshiki dates to around the mid-Showa period. Bands of muted purple and cream alternate across a warm rust-colored ground, with fine lines of pale green and dark brown woven into the stripes. From a distance, the pattern feels bold and rhythmic. Look closer, and its delicate layers of color become apparent.

A small triangular piece of white cloth is sewn into one corner. Its stitches and the visible cotton weave add to the character of this Japanese vintage textile.

Rather than constantly replacing things with something new, keeping an existing cloth in use offers another way to live. This piece speaks to slow fashion and intentional living, finding value in what is already here. Its aged colors and texture cannot be reproduced exactly in new fabric, and another cloth with precisely the same character would be difficult to find.

Product Details

Material: Cotton
Era: Around the mid-Showa period
Colors and pattern: Rust ground with purple, cream, pale green, and dark brown stripes
Feature: A triangular piece of white cloth sewn into one corner

Ways to Use

Use it as a wrapping cloth for lightweight belongings, a cover for a basket, or a textile accent over a shelf. Its warm, earthy colors pair naturally with wooden furniture and bamboo baskets.

It can also be incorporated into sewing, handcraft, or upcycling projects that make use of its distinctive vintage colors and texture.

As this is an old textile with fraying, avoid wrapping heavy objects or placing strong tension on the fabric or knots.

Measurements

Approximately 85 × 92 cm / 33.5 × 36.2 in.
Please allow for slight measurement variations.

Condition

Fraying is present, but the cloth is in good overall vintage condition. It has been washed.

As a textile that has survived many decades, it has a character and finish different from new fabric. Please review the photographs and condition description, and appreciate it as a vintage cloth originally made for everyday life.

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