The Hirota Tsumugi Blog
Textiles
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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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- 2019.06.10
- Beautiful Gradational Omi Chijimi Made in Shiga
- Omi-chijimi is a finest summer ramie kimono weaving, traditionally manufactured in a Japan's biggest lakeside area of Omi region, Shiga prefecture. The history and root are very old in the region, making ramie weaving for over dozen centuries.
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- 2019.05.20
- Tanba cloth — the restored folk craft textile
- Tanba cloth (Tanba-fu) was used to be called "Sajimomen (佐治木綿)", a plain woven folk textile of handspun cotton and silk, produced at Saji-village, Tanba.
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- 2019.04.22
- Noto-jyofu: light green striped Noto-jyofu
- This is one of our Noto-jyofu stocks, a light-green striped Noto-jyofu. Noto-jyofu referes to a traditional hemp textile made in Nakanoto area, the neck of the Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa prefecture.
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