The Hirota Tsumugi Blog
Oshima Tsumugi
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- 2022.03.29
- Understand Kasuri Technique of Oshima-tsumugi / “Katasu” and “Hitomoto”
- Oshima Tsumugi is a traditional silk textile and one of the most famous kimono textiles in Japan made in Amami Oshima island, Kagoshima prefecture. It is also known for the world's most minute and precise ikat textile.
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- 2020.04.01
- Concerning Oshima tsumugi’s production prospect
- Oshima tsumugi is the most famous 'tsumugi' kimono, with its finest kasuri (ikat) and wide choice of design variations. Even though Oshima tsumugi is the biggest tsumugi weaving area and industry in Japan, the production rate is decreasing hugely,
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- 2019.08.07
- Traditional “Tatsugou” Patterned Oshima Tsumugi Silk from Amami Oshima Island
- Tatsugou(龍郷) pattern is well-known for the representative traditional pattern of Oshima tsumugi.
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- 2019.03.27
- Simple cross kasuri patterned Oshima tsumugi
- Oshima tsumugi is famous for its mud-dyeing technique and elaborated kasuri patterns. Meanwhile, simple designed, bright colored oshima tsumugi are also produced substantially.
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- 2019.01.13
- Unique zanshi (wasted yarn) oshima tsumugi
- Oshimatsumugi's delicate kasuri (ikat) yarns are produced by unique hand loom, called "shimebata" where yarns are once weaved according to the pattern in order for creating the resist dyeing on yarns. Usually ikat or kasuri employs tie-dyeing method, yet oshima tsumugi develops, you can say, loom-dyeing method, which may be the world's most complicated and elaborate yarn resist dying technique.
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