The Hirota Tsumugi Blog
Every fabrics Hirota Tsumugi supplies holds a profound story from unkown Japanese
traditional or historic backgrounds to astonishingly meticulous craftsmanship.
At Hirota Tsumugi we thrive on exchanging these unrevealed stories. The Blog offers an oppotunity
to discover and introduece the Japanese Kimono fabric culture and craftsmanship futher.
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- 2022.08.05
- Office closure dates in August 2022
- Dear important customers, We, Hirota Tsumugi, thank you very much for your continuous patronage. Please note that our office will be closed as following dates, due to national and summer holidays. from 6th to 16th August Normal working activities will be guaranteed on 17rd August
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- 2022.05.07
- Omi Chijimi Ramie & Cotton Woven Fabric for Summer Kimono and Yukata
- Newly woven in this spring, Omi Chijimi ramie and cotton summer kimono fabric with 3 color options (Purple / Blue / Beige), made in the Eastern lake district of Shiga prefecture, Omi region. The ramie weaving history in this area is very old over 1,000 years for producing highest quality ramie summer Kimono fabrics.
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- 2022.03.29
- Understand the Kasuri technique of Oshima Tsumugi / Part 1: “Katasu” and “Hitomoto”
- The Oshima Tsumugi's patterns consist of a countless number of extremely small dots. Surprisingly, each dots less than a square millimeter are an independent ikat crossed by warp and weft Kasuri yarns. All the dots are arranged and adjusted by hands to create the spectacular beautiful woven patterns.
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- 2022.02.03
- Tango Chirimen / Finest silk crepe fabric made for a supreme Kimono
- Tango Chirimen "丹後ちりめん" is a crepe silk fabric made in Tongo, Kyoto, exclusively used for a finest Kimono white cloth. Today, it covers about 70% of the kimono silk fabrics.
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- 2020.12.25
- New year holiday notice
- Hirotatsumugi will be closing from December 27th to January 4th as a new year holiday. We wish you all the best for 2021.
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- 2020.12.21
- A Disappearing Craftmanship of “Yuki Tsumugi”
- Yuki tsumugi production consists of a multiple steps, complete division of labor, involving different artisans at different stages. If one of 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 traditional wisdoms of craftmanship.
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- 2020.10.06
- “Hand-woven” fabrics? Different types of weaving looms in Japanese kimono manufactures.
- Various Japanese kimono fabrics are said to be "hand-woven" textiles. Hand-woven fabric reminds you of the image that it's all done by hand where an weaver sits on old-fashioned handloom, throwing a shuttle right and left with a reed beating up the weft yarns one by one. However, that would not be the case to all of "hand-woven" fabrics, because there are various weaving looms exist today and some of them are difficult to be regarded as hand-weaving, although it says it is "hand-woven".
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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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- 2020.03.27
- 2020 April Hirotatsumugi textile display at Kyoto
- Hirotatsumugi's April textile display Date : April 1 (Wed) - 2 (Fri), 2020 (9am - 17pm)
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