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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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- 2019.01.13
- True value of hand loomed textiles? Two types of Japanese traditional looms
- In Japan, there are a wide variety of hand loomed traditional craft textiles. In terms of the diversity of living traditional hand-loomed textiles, Japan would stand out unlike any other in the world.
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- 2019.01.10
- Japanese ikat art, “Kasuri” / Part Ⅰ , Making of kasuri yarns
- Kasuri – a Japanese ward indicating ikat, which is originated in India, gone through incredible development at the east end of Japan. In order to understand about Kasuri, I’ll explain about it in several different entries.
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- 2019.01.07
- The size of a “tanmono”, kimono fabric
- A kimono fabric, called "tanmono" in Japanese, has exclusive size dimension, which is '38 ~41cm wide × 1250cm length' (15 × 500 inches, or 0.43 × 14 yards).
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- 2019.01.07
- What is tsumugi? : tsumugi yarn and fabric
- 'Tsumugi' literally means 'hand spun', so that tsumugi refers to a fabric that is woven with hand spun yarn made in Japan. It is at the same time a word connoting 'yarn-dyed', 'casual', 'workwear', that symmetrizes piece-dyed kimono fabric,
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