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Hand pulled cotton threads, dyed with natural dyes and woven into stripes and checks. Hand pulled silk threads are also woven into only the weft. Tosa men tsumugi: Kagami, Kōchi (Kami) Ueda tsumugi: 上田島紬: Ueda, Nagano: Ueda tsumugi is always striped and is sometimes referred to as ueda jima (jima meaning "stripes"). Ushikubi tsumugi ...
Shimebata is the technique used to make the kasuri threads. The white silk threads are tightly woven with cotton threads creating a dense mat. Areas of the silk threads are exposed according to the design. When dyed only certain of the areas of the thread will take color. [14] Dyeing 染め
Ōshima-tsumugi: Silk threads are dyed with mud and dye from the bark of Sharinbai Tree creating a deep black color. The mud dyed kasuri threads are hand woven together to create patterns. [10] Kurume: e-gasuri (picture kasuri) Nara: hemp fiber kasuri, with shino-gasuri [5] Miyakojima, Okinawa: ramie fiber kasuri
To produce the fabric, silk floss is first extracted from silkworm cocoons and is spun by hand into yarn.Dyed patterns are added to the cloth with kasuri ikat before weaving with a loom known as a jibata (地機).
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly of fibroin and is produced by the larvae of the moth Bombyx mori. Silk production is thought to have begun in China and silk thread and cloth manufacture was well-established by the Shang dynasty (1600–1050 BCE). [6]
Silk throwing was originally a hand process relying on a turning a wheel (the gate) that twisted four threads while a helper who would be a child, ran the length of a shade, hooked the threads on stationary pins (the cross)and ran back to start the process again.
The raw silk Aso oke called sanyan requires thousands of moth cocoons to be collected and their silk carefully unraveled and spun into thread. These types of labor-intensive activities were prerequisites to weaving and hand embroidering. Technically, Aso oke is what is known as a double-heddle narrow loom weave.
The technique involves several steps, which include preparing the yarn, which in most cases is made from dyed cotton or silk, setting the loom, and then weaving the fabric. The cotton used in making Aso-oke is hand made into thread which is combined with other materials in the production.
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