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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- 2019.04.14
- Yuki Tsumugi’s Silk Handspinning – the World Most Expensive Silk Textile
- Yuki tsumugi is inscribed for UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. Only Yuki tsumugi and Echigo jofu/Ojiya chijimi are inscribed among Japanese textile traditions so far. How astonishing about Yuki tsumugi is its hand-spinning process. All of the weft and wrap yarns 100% consist of floss silk handspun yarn.
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- 2019.03.27
- Hatasho tsumugi from Shiga prefecture/ comb printing kasuri
- By Omi merchants from the Edo period, Omi-jofu has became popular across Japan. After the WWⅡ, its technique has adopted to a silk textile, which is about Hatasho 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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- 2019.03.09
- Mud-dyeing kumejima-tsumugi
- Kumejima tsumugi is one of traditional crafted tsumugi textiles, made in the Kume island, located about 90 kilometers west of Okinawa Honto.
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- 2019.03.02
- An ancient Japanese textile, Kudzu cloth
- Kudzu (otherwise known as East Asian arrowroot) is a kind of vine plants native to much of Asia, primarily originated from Japan, China or Korea. "Kudzu" is derived from the Japanese name, and
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- 2019.02.22
- 100 % Plant-dyed Tsumugi Silk from Nigata
- Mr. and Mrs. Matsumoto's tsumugi textiles are made in one of the heaviest snowfall areas in Japan. We would like to introduce one of their unique products, a 100% plant-dyed gradational plaid weaving, embroidered with falling leaves.
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- 2019.02.14
- Shimoi Tsumugi | Striped Diamond Twill Weave
- In Iida city,Nagano prefecture, a senshoku (deying & weaving) artist Shimoi Nobuhiko produces "Shimoi tsumugi". He had originally worked at the place of Western textile design, and using his experience and modern sense, his kimono textiles surpasses others in originality, a fusion of innovation and tradition.
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- 2019.01.14
- The utmost cotton textile — Satsuma gasuri
- Cotton textiles overall are thought to be relatively cheap, but there is a top grade cotton weaving made of finest traditional craft technique. This time I'll introduce the highest peak of cotton textile, Satsuma gasuri.
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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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- 2019.01.07
- The Size of “Tanmono” Kimono Fabric Bolt
- A Kimono fabric bolt, called "Tanmono", is woven in '38 ~41cm wide × 1250~80cm length (15 × 500 inches, or 0.43 × 14 yards) size.
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