tsujigahanazome 辻が花染

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Lit. "flowers at the crossing dyeing." A Muromachi period hybrid, decorative textile technique of combining tie-dyeing and hand-painting that became popular with Momoyama period elites. It uses stitched tie-dyeing combined with ink painting kaki-e 描絵, gold or silver leaf imprint embellishments *haku 箔, and embroidery on silk nui 縫. The early 17th-century decline of tsujigahana, based on its extreme complexity, led to the development of the all-over fawn-spot tie-dye, or kanoko 鹿の子 form of *shiborizome 絞染.