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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- 2019.01.14
- 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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