忍しのぶ摺ずり

noun

clothing patterned with squirrel's foot fern design

Archaic term for a dyeing or textile patterning technique using the fronds of the shinobu fern (squirrel's foot fern) to create a resist-dye pattern on cloth. Often associated with classical Japanese poetry and historical garments.

See also: しのぶ

• 古こ今きん集しゅうに「忍摺しのぶずりの衣ころも」を詠よんだ歌うたがある。

  There is a poem in the Kokinshū that mentions 'shinobuzuri no koromo' (a robe patterned with fern-print).