Metallic Teal Smoke Rainbow Hand-Painted Unusual Obi, Heavy Thick Silk and Metallic from Japan #214 Japanese Kimono Fabrics high quality 2-hole button

high quality 2-hole button

Some care for their cotton block prints by hand washing in cool water separately and drying in the shade

high shine STERLING silver

These pieces are from a dis-assembled kimono

located between Milan and Lake Como in northern Italy

Metallic Teal Smoke Rainbow Hand-Painted Unusual Obi, Heavy Thick Silk and Metallic from Japan #214 Japanese Kimono Fabrics high quality 2-hole buttonThis is an obi that is like flexible silky metal. Blended shades of silver, gunmetal tones, teals, blues, pinks, green golds. It's alive with sheen, probably has real metal fibers woven in with with the silk, and most likely hand painted with Bokashi technique. The blends are smooth and 'blurred' no sharp lines between colors; if you see sharp lines in the photos, it's just reflections, sheen and or fold lines. The base silk also has a subtle crackle