This Japanese Katazome from the late 1800's combines three different wonderful resist-dyed indigo patterns hand stitched together. So much symbolism - the famous crane and tortoise, symbols of longevity, and the auspicious pine, bamboo and plum. Plum shows courage as its blossoms burst forth from under the ice, bamboo is resilience as it bends but does not break and the pine symbolizes long life and faithful marriage as its needles fall in pairs. Backed in white, washed Belgian linen.