Box 2 PPC

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These images were printed from negatives stored in folders 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The images illustrate the process of producing silk cloth starting with spinning the silk, dyeing the yarn, mordaning the yarn with iron-rich mud, drying, and weaving.

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These images were printed from negatives stored in folder 34.

They illustrate the process of making Echigo jōfu in the workshop of Maruasa Kojo, including twisting yarn, warping and marking yarn for dyeing for ikat, tying yarn for dyeing for ikat, and the resulting yarn ready to be woven.

Scope and Contents These images were printed from negatives stored in folders 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.They illustrate making cloth in the workshop of Taira Toshiko, master weaver and a "Living National Treasure of Japan". The images show cutting down of bashō trees to make the fiber, processing the plant to soften the fibers, removing impurities, splitting into fibers, making yarn from the fibers, twisting the yarn, warping, tying the yarns to be dyed for ikat, weaving, and polishing the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: All of the images are related to Stinchecum's field research into traditional practices of fiber production and ikat weaving in Japan. There appear to be two sets of images: 35mm color slides (575) and black and white negatives (1316). The negatives are accompanied with contact sheets and some of the negatives were also developed and printed on 5x7 paper. The 5x7 prints were grouped, presumably by Stinchecum, to illustrate various workshop practices.Some of the...