Dashi-fukusa Cloth (Tea-things) (Serujūku-no-Uma)

Turkey, the crossroads of East-West civilization, has spun a lot of histories and cultures from thr ancient Greece to the Ottoman Empire, so that foreigners have friendly feeling and subtle charm to her.

The design of this brocade is modeled after the pictures drawn on the tiles excavated in Turkey, used to decorate the majestic palace of the Seljuk Empire. The tiles, star-shaped and cross-shaped, were drawn, spontaneously and humorously, by the horses, the peacooks, the dogs, together with the vines. We have laid them here in a continuance pattern.

We wove, into a warp-patterned brocade, hte small world of the animals spread endlessly in the stars of the tiles, trying best use of the original colors of the Seljuk tiles such as sacred blue, charming white, and black.