Mystery Ikat, Teal/Bronze Drawings on Ivory, Oshima? Vintage Kimono Silk from Japan, By the Yard #313 Nature a few almost pastel gray-white

a few almost pastel gray-white

It has no drape and a little body

Sooooo drapey

They almost look like sashiko stitches

We think it may be older than vintage

Mystery Ikat, Teal/Bronze Drawings on Ivory, Oshima? Vintage Kimono Silk from Japan, By the Yard #313 Nature a few almost pastel gray-whiteAll done in the weave, we think this may be a 'non certified' Oshima silk; it's certainly a difficult, detailed weave, very smooth, sleek, soft silk, and our translation on our phone thinks one of the figures woven in black near the fringe says "Oshima" and or "Large Island". The dark teal and brownish bronze figures are reminiscent of Kanji; they almost seem to sparkle because of the character of the intricate weave. A story, a newspaper, a village