March 2012
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: The Blackest Black: Kyoto's Black Dyeing... →
keepsdiary:
For generations, Kyoto’s textile families have been producing fabrics with one thing in common. They’re the blackest blacks on the planet.
As far back as the 10th century Japan, black cloth has been associated with nobility, often worn by Japan’s warrior classes. Married women would…