Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing 
Subtitle: Tradition Techniques Innovation
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: June 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780870115592
Subjects: Textile Arts; Textile Arts - General; Hobbies/Crafts; Tie-dyeing; Crafts & Hobbies; Crafts / Hobbies; Japan; Asian; Dye; Textile design; Resist-dyed textiles; Technique
First sentence: In A.D. 749 Emperor Shomu proceeded in state to Todai-ji, the great Buddhist temple in Nara, to celebrate the completion of its enormous bronze image of Buddha and the fortuitous discovery in a remote part of Japan of gold, needed to coat the figure itself and the large bronze lotus upon which it is seated.