Textile crafts, Japanese: Noren [007]

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Title Textile crafts, Japanese: Noren [007]
Photo Number Box 25, Japan, Noren, 9
Description Photo shows norens being dried during production in Kyoto, Japan
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Date 1961
Subject Draperies--Japan--Photographs; Textile crafts--Japan--Photographs; Draperies
Keywords Noren; Partitions
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Holding Institution Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Spatial Coverage Kyoto (Japan)
Caption on Slide Printed & dyed Noren or shop curtains or Aprons stretched (uncut) to dry, Kyoto, Japan
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. "Noren (暖簾) are traditional Japanese fabric dividers, hung between rooms, on walls, in doorways, or in windows. They usually have one or more vertical slits cut from the bottom to nearly the top of the fabric, allowing for easier passage or viewing. Noren are rectangular and come in many different materials, sizes, colors, and patterns. Noren are traditionally used by shops and restaurants as a means of protection from sun, wind, and dust, and for advertising space. Sentō (commercial bathhouses) also place noren across their entrances, typically blue in color for men and red for women with the kanji 湯 (yu, lit. hot water) or the corresponding hiragana ゆ. They are also hung in the front entrance to a shop to signify that the establishment is open for business, and they are always taken down at the end of the business day."--Wikipedia
Type Image
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
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ARK ark:/87278/s6pr8bvp
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 331117
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pr8bvp
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