Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 206 Brown Sweet Tea Girls patterns The term Saya-gata designates a

The term Saya-gata designates a "gossamer figured cloth pattern

Overlapping Diamonds

You can follow the instructions on  the sampler for stitching both layers together or use the plain half as the backing for a pillow or other project

You couldn't ask for a simpler pattern that makes up to such a stunning quilt

This design is also available in # 209 - Navy

Japanese Fabric - Cotton Tsumugi Cut Cloth (12" x 14") - # 206 Brown Sweet Tea Girls patterns The term Saya-gata designates aTsumugi 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