Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi - Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 243 Olive Green Art of the Quilt Linked hexagons

Linked hexagons

This design is also available in # 41 Gold and # 240 Navy

All the blocks are set as straight rows

This 24" X 45" wall hanging features an elegant Japanese cranes among a floral garden

soft and elegant with pastels or dark and strong with a masculine palette

Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi - Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 243 Olive Green Art of the Quilt Linked hexagonsTsumugi is an obsolete, costly, narrow Japanese silk fabric made in the following fashion: first, a coarse cloth is woven with cotton wrap and thick silk filling; second, this fabric is run through a dye vat several times; third, it is buried in the ground until the cotton warp has rotted; lastly, the silk is rewoven into a fabric. The result is a mottled design produced by undyed places in the silk yarn where the cotton warp prevented dye