Thursday, May 26, 2016
potd - Kamon Katagami
I've started putting out these beautiful little kamon katagami stencils. They probably date from the late 19th century (going on the packets they're in). Each one is about 6cm square and they've been used to stencil kamon (family crests) on to formal garments. Many of them have been cut from old book pages and they've been treated with persimmon tannin which gives them the brown colour and makes them waterproof. I'm putting them out in sets of four ($22) with each design identified. I've been having fun looking up what each one is. This is only a small sample.
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