SRI Threads: Vintage Japanese and Indian Textiles

A Rustic Indigo Dyed Boro Nagagi: Beautiful Patches, Eccentric Stitching

Sri is a textile gallery specializing in antique Japanese folk textiles, highlighting the indigo-dyed cotton utilitarian fabrics and boro--or patched and mended--textiles of old Japan. We also carry a wonderful selection of textiles from India.

We are located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York and we are open by appointment.

Please visit our BLOG, Sri Threads, for our commentary on the world of Japanese folk textiles and for photographs of our New York home.

If you would like to visit us, please do not hesitate to e mail or call us; we would love to meet you.

As well, if you are searching for a specific type of textile not listed on our site, feel free to contact us with your request. Our showroom inventory is larger and more diverse than we can list on this site, and we would be happy to speak to you about your interest and how we might help you find the textile you are looking for.

For a glimpse of individual pieces from our collection of specialized texiles, visit out gallery at asianart.com

And for a view into Sri's showroom, have a look at our online gallery where we have posted a few photos of our Brooklyn home.

An Applique Ralli Quilt: Boro, Indian Style

Fabric Screen Cutting in Japan

Author's Description: This man is actually using a very fine tool to punch holes in a very light material in order to make patterns. This material will then be used to apply dye on fabric. The time this work takes is crazy. This was taken in Kanazawa's castle during an exhibition of Japanese fine crafts.

Arimatsu Shibori Production

English narration of Arimatsu Shibori history and production.

EDOKOMON- Japanese Kimono Printing Process

Author's description: In Edo era, the people were prohibited from wearing showy kimono. Therefore the kimono of small pattern to look plain in a long distance was popular. The meanings of the pattern are different each. It is said that it is smart (粋 iki)" to wear the kimono of the pattern that accepted the situation.

The video is in Japanese. It shows good footage of how kimono fabric is prepared using silk-screening, printing and dyeing.