The Hirota Tsumugi Blog
Textiles
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- 2020.12.21
- Surikomi-kasuri / A Disappearing Craftsmanship from Yuki-tsumugi textile tradition
- The traditional Yuki-tsumugi silk production consists of multiple steps, which are a complete division of labor, involving different artisans at different stages (in total there are more than 20 different stages). If one of the experts retired, it is not replaceable. In this Covid-19 pandemic situation, the production rate has dramatically decreased. We are again about to lose one of precious traditions.
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- 2020.05.01
- Ice Cotton Kimono Underwear Fabric, the Most Suitable for A Summer Cloth Face Mask
- In recent summer's intense heat, wearing a mask to go out will be incredibly harsh. Our product of Ice Cotton fabric, made of natural fibers, could be greatly helpful with its comfortable touch and cooling effect.
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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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- 2020.02.25
- Yomitanzan Hanaori from Okinawa
- Hana-ori, a flower pattern created "through" weaving, is the technique well used in traditional Okinawa handcraft textiles. Yomitanzan hanaori is one of most beautiful and elaborate Hana-ori Okinawa textiles.
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- 2019.11.20
- Shimoi Tsumugi | New Arrivals | Latest Fabric Collection
- We just received new works from Shimoi tsumugi, made by a textile artist, Shimoi Nobuhiko based in Ida city, Nagano prefecture. He used to work as a textile designer for Western clothing. Thus he could bring modern sensitivity into traditional kimono cloth making.
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- 2019.10.02
- Echigo jofu & Ojiya chijimi : Japanese Finest Ramie Textile
- Echigo jofu (越後上布) , along with Ojiya-chijimi (小千谷縮), is one of the highest quality as well as oldest traditional hemp textiles in Japan, made in the snowy Uonuma and Ojiya city, Nigata prefecture.
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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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- 2019.07.25
- Shina-fu Linden Fabric | Japanese Oldest Textile Tradition
- Shina fu is a ancient Japanese fabric well known along with Basho-fu and Kudzu-fu, made of Shina Linden, a deciduous tree native to the north part of Japan. It is estimated that the cloth is well-used across the Northern part of Japan from the prehistoric time as daily and work wears, or bags. It was one of the most common cloth before the spread of hemp and cotton in Japan.
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- 2019.07.02
- Ryukyu Kasuri / “clay wall like” unique texture
- The Ryukyu Kasuri for summer kimono employs unique twisted silk for weft yarns in order to make distinctive scabrous and see-through texture. Its texture is sometimes called "cray wall like".
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- 2019.06.21
- Kihachijyo — a primo traditional silk textile made in Hachijyo island
- Kihachijyo, one of the prime grade silk textiles, had been beloved and worn only by the Feudal lords in the Edo period, so that it has different origins from other Tsumugi textiles in which other tsumugi were started as formers wears.
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