Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 205 Pecan Pine Tree Quilts Linked Diamonds

Linked Diamonds

These needles have a sharp tip to pierce smoothly through the fabric

Sampler # 055 in white and # 2014 in navy

Allow about 2 - 3% for shrinkage

Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 205 Pecan Pine Tree Quilts Linked DiamondsTsumugi 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