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Woven paper kimono (shifu kimono) in the private collection of Satō Kamiko Workshop

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posted on 2025-01-22, 10:48 authored by Daphne Mohajer va PesaranDaphne Mohajer va Pesaran
A kimono made of woven paper cloth (shifu), woven with paper threads/yarns made in Shiroishi. This is a lightweight garment, suitable for summer, or to keep warm in winter when worn under a conventional kimono . Detaill of threads/yarns is visible (silk or cotton is alternating blue/white in the warp and paper is in the weft). Folded hem

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

S10

Rights owner

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Cultural group

Japanese

Participants

Fumiko Satō, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Country

Japan

Place

Shiroishi, Miyagi

Item/object

Shifu kimono (woven paper kimono)

Techniques of production

Woven-loomwoven, Sewn

Materials

Washi

Cultural context/event

Interview

Location

Workshop

Temporality

This woven paper (shifu) kimono was created during the 20th-century, during the revival period in Shiroishi, when kamiko, shifu, and washi skills were being propagated and researched by keen local people

Date of creation

2020-01-07

Unique ID

2019SG04-S10-0394

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    Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

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    Keywords

    paper-clothshiroishikamikoarchivalshifu

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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