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“To dye for”

Monday, November 10th, 2008

One of the loveliest articles on kimono I’ve seen in a while, on a kimono artist I’ve admired for years: The San Diego Union-Tribune — To dye for: Itchiku Kubota’s works reach back to a mythic golden age of Japanese textiles. In 1937, a promising 20-year-old Japanese artist, Itchiku Kubota, paid a visit to the […]

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Yukata kitsuke videos

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

The excellent kitsuke site at Somesho has added videos on how to wear yukata and tie different hanhaba obi musubi! You’ll need a very fast connection to download them, as they’re big files (the kitsuke videos range from 3 to 19 meg, while the obi musubi are from 25-40 meg). If you plan on viewing […]

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