Some Japanese Textiles and tea bowls

Above are cottons and silk below. 

Above woolen kimono textiles and below silk made with an ancient weave. It hardly wrinkles yet has a nice stiffness to it. 

This is mosquito netting above..silk below 

Kimono below is Silk. 

Handwoven cotton ikat above and shibori below. Tie dye. 

Shibori in pink as well both are silk. 

The teabowl has a handmade signed box. It is oribe ware. A.clog shaped bowl that was very popular in Japan at one time. The rage! With plums hanging or persimmons. 

Below an oribe bowl 

 

Autumn

I would give one of my ceramic pieces to Michelle Obama. And feel like I’ve left it in a safe place. For posterity. Or a few pieces from my collections. I’m sure she has her own amazing treasures but I have to try. Maybe she would like my tiles entitled, burnt offerings terracotta. Another burnt Offerings are in a corporate collection of a tile company and was in The Monarch Tile Ceramic Competition. It was Monarch who bought it. The clay was stoneware. These are hand made tiles burnished and fired in a sawdust fire and assembled to show the smoke gray moving through the piece. This piece is worth 12,000.00.