Orime

Orime Textiles is located just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. We specialize in antique and vintage Japanese textiles. Our shop categorizes its textiles based on technique and our collection highlights boro, kasuri, katazome, sakiori, sashiko, shibori, and tsutsugaki items. We are happy to have included textile designers, collectors, costume curators, fiber artists, historians, and enthusiasts of handcrafted fabrics to our list of clientele and hope that you find something that excites you.

  • This is a Japanese vintage child's shibori cotton yukata with a unique indigo dyed chevron pattern. The shibori technique is "hira-nui hikishime" shibori ... read more
    price:  $185.00

  • This is a vintage Japanese cotton textile fragment decorated with mixed shibori tie-dye techniques of kanoko (spaced dots), boshi (capped circles), and ... read more
    price:  $120.00

  • This is an antique Japanese Kurume kasuri cotton futon cover. Kurume kasuri is noteworthy, for it is woven with thread which is bound ... read more
    price:  $310.00

  • This is an Antique Japanese Bashofu Noragi, Banana Fiber Work Jacket This is an antique striped bashofu noragi, or work jacket. Kijōka-bashōfu is the ... read more
    price:  $600.00

  • This is a Japanese Undyed Hemp Tsunobukuro "Horn Bag" This is a Japanese hemp tsuno-bukuro, or "horn bag" Tsuno-bukuro are composed of a single ... read more
    price:  $315.00

  • Japanese noragi are clothes that were created for use as work wear. Typically clothes for this purpose are reinforced with multiple layers ... read more
    price:  $300.00

  • This is a Japanese sashiko noragi, or quilted coat, from Shonai, Yamagata prefecture of Japan. This jacket's entire surface is dyed with ... read more
    price:  $625.00

  • This is an antique Japanese tsutsugaki futon with mirrored fan and tassel motif This large four panel tsutsugaki futonji, bed covering, is from ... read more
    price:  $650.00

  • This a large swath of vintage Japanese shibori cotton. Shibori is a Japanese term for several methods of dying cloth with a pattern ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a large Japanese indigo dyed jacket, or hanten, decorated with a rice paste resist dye technique. It is very likely ... read more
    price:  $145.00

  • This is a stunning example of an antique Japanese boro futonji with many patches and thousands of sashiko stitches. Both sides of ... read more
    price:  $1480.00

  • a wonderful piece of antique Japanese yanagi shibori, willow patterned tie dye on hand loomed cotton made with botanical indigo dye. The ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a beautiful and masterfully handcrafted hemp komebukuro, or festival rice bag. This bag was used to carry offerings of ... read more
    price:  $240.00

  • This is a beautiful yosegire patchwork futon cover dating to the early 1900s. The word "yosegire" literally means 'the sewing together of different ... read more
    price:  $495.00

  • This is a boro futon cover, made up indigo dyed cottons that are first cut into re-usable pieces, and then patched together. ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This Edo period silk temple banner, or ban, was created from salvaged silk kimono. The proper "front" is the green blue side ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a stunning Japanese han juban, or underkimono. Han juban were worn much like an undershirt is for western clothing, they ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a boro futon cover repurposed from a larger wrapping cloth, or furoshiki, dyed with indigo to a solid pale blue ... read more
    price:  $240.00

  • This is a boro sashiko sodenashi, a type of sleeveless hanten, or jacket, typically worn by Japanese farmers. The outer fabrics are ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a striking indigo dyed cotton shibori yukata. The shibori technique that is demonstrated here is Ori-nui shibori. Here the ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This a large swath of Japanese shibori cotton. Shibori is a Japanese term for several methods of dying cloth with a pattern ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is an antique Japanese boro farmer's workwear jacket called a noragi. The textile is made of hand spun cotton which has ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a Japanese cotton zanshi-ori futon cover. Zanshi textiles are woven of leftover threads. These threads often come from other home ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a beautiful Japanese kurume kasuri cotton futon cover from early Meiji period. The textile has been hand woven and hand ... read more
    price:  $535

  • This is a stunning and beautifully constructed long shibori work coat, or nagagi, from the Tohoku region of Japan. This particular shibori ... read more
    price:  sold

  • Meiji Boro Futon - Indigo, Stripes and Lattices This is a wonderful antique Japanese boro futon cover from the early Meiji period (late ... read more
    price:  1050.00

  • This is a Japanese cotton boy's kimono with elaborately dyed dots, and a brilliant red sea bream, or porgy. This child's kimono, ... read more
    price:  $160

  • This is a large, Japanese antique indigo dyed cotton noren from the Meiji period. The fabric itself is made of thick, hand ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a large, heavily patched fragment of a Japanese boro futon cover. There are over sixty pieces of cloth on this ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This a large swath of Japanese shibori cotton. Shibori is a Japanese term for several methods of dying cloth with a pattern ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a shibori yukata. The shibori process is arashi shibori, where the cloth is wrapped around a pole and then dyed. ... read more
    price:  $495

  • This is a Japanese farmer's jacket made of indigo dyed hemp. What is striking about this jacket is that the garment was ... read more
    price:  $475

  • This is a rare and unusual boro item. This Japanese furoshiki or wrapping cloth is made of pieces of nobori, which are ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a fabulous men's patchwork juban. This unique kimono is made from cotton tenugui or Japanese hand towels that were pieced ... read more
    price:  $450

  • This is a vintage Japanese indigo dyed furoshiki, or wrapping cloth. The cloth is comprised of four 14" panels of fabric which ... read more
    price:  $265

  • This is a gorgeous indigo dyed dochugi, or traveller's cape, woven from kudzu vine. Garments woven out of kudzu might have faded ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a cotton Buddhist pilgrim's jacket. The jacket was worn by a pilgrim on their journey to Shikoku island as they ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a striking shibori dyed han juban, which is often worn underneath a kimono. Shibori is a Japanese dying technique where ... read more
    price:  sold

  • This is a cotton boy's festival kimono with elaborately dyed waves and a brilliant red sea bream, or porgy. This child's kimono, ... read more
    price:  $170

  • This is a gorgeous antique hand spun and handwoven Japanese cotton bag, that was once used to store urushi lacquer bowls. The ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • This is cotton noragi or Japanese worker's jacket. Made entirely of indigo, this noragi's hand-stitched sashiko design is a simple and geometric ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • This is a Japanese indigo dyed cotton shibori kimono. a combination of shibori dying techniques are used to achieve this beautiful stream ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • This is an antique boro sodenashi, or sleeveless vest. The intricately patched inside of this vest is what makes this piece truly ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • a charming silk bag which has been hand embroidered with a fan, cherry blossom and bamboo motif. Likely used to present a ... read more
    price:  $60

  • This is an antique cotton apron, or maekake, made of hand loomed katazome cotton. Dating from the early Meiji period (1868-1912), this ... read more
    price:  $160

  • This is a beautiful girl's hemp kimono with hand painted motifs of crane and pine. For the Japanese, the crane--or tsuru--is considered ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • This is an antique Japanese floor cushion, or zabuton. The zabuton is made of beautiful katazome dyed cotton and lined with hand ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • This a large swath of Japanese shibori cotton. Shibori is a Japanese term for several methods of dying cloth with a pattern ... read more
    price:  SOLD