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Guide to the Japanese textiles (1919)

Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles, Smith, A. D. Howell, Koop, Albert J. (Albert James), 1877-1945 · London : Printed under the authority of H. M. Stationery Off. · leaf 58

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36 enable the mouth of the sleeve to be gathered in about the wrist, if so desired, a convenience which does not seem, however, to have been ordinarily taken advantage of.1 … The hanjiri, worn by young princes and dogid (boys of the more aristocratic families), resembled the foregoing, but lacked the ran, while instead of the running-strings a broad band of braiding, made of six strands of coloured silk cord loosely interlaced, surrounded the mouth of each sleeve, with…

Textile fabrics

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