We have been collecting and dealing vintage and antiqueworld ethnographic textiles for almost forty years, and have a sister websiteto The Kimono Gallery at Juli Antiques & Textile Resource Inc which deals with Japanese,Indonesian, Central Asian, Chinese and European textiles. In 2003, we became more interested in focusing on Japanese textiles, especially kimonos. With most of the world's best ethnographic artworks already heavily collected during the 20th century, it was astonishing to discover that in the 21st century one of the world's most iconic ethnographic arts - the kimono - would be so little understood and collected. Certainly the vast amount of extant kimonos - in the millions - smoke-screened the fact that among the multitude were a relatively small amount of kimonogems. We have viewed roughly a million kimonos -- those kimonos found in price levels three and four in this gallery are the gems of that extensive search.