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The moon waxes and wanes. / Chichibu Meisen Textile Scarf
Arakei Orimono（Chichibu City, Saitama）

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The purpose of this textile was kimono.
“Meisen” is a mechanical a splashed pattern that was invented 100 years ago and mainly uses silk fiber.
Of all the printing textile factories, this maintains the only old-fashioned manufacturing process.
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RIENZOME / Chusen Tenugui (Tokyo)
“Tenugui” is a hand-wiper, is a thin Japanese hand towel made from cotton.
“Chusen” is the traditional Japanese dyeing technique by which cloth is dyed.
Paste is attached to the portion on which cloth does not dye, and dye is poured out.
Therefore, dye becomes as if the dyeing is blurred, and spreads finely to the core of cloth.
The cloth dyed by Chusen was a material mainly indispensable to Japanese people as cloth of a yukata (informal summertime kimono).
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MIKONOS / Towel handkerchief (Imabari City, Ehime)
lace handkerchief made of towel thread.
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WASHINDEN / Japanese paper thread scarf （Sakai City, Fukui）
This summer scarf has excellent water absorption.
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