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A student demonstrating the unshin sewing technique

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posted on 2025-01-22, 10:47 authored by Daphne Mohajer va PesaranDaphne Mohajer va Pesaran
A student at Ōhara Wafuku Senmon Gakuen demonstrating the unshin sewing technique commony used in Japanese sewing of kimono. You can see that she switches from sewing with a half back-stitch for a bulkier area to the unshin technique, which allows her to feed multiple stitches onto a needle before passing the needle and thread through the cloth. Note also that she is using needles in place of pins to hold two pieces of fabric together. It is not possible to use the unshin technique on paper, as it is not flexible enough. Instead, the needle and thread are often passed completely through the paper, and each stitch is stiched individually, instead of as a line as in the unshin technique. While this is a common method for sewing kimono, it is not used to sew kamiko sas it is too bulky. A half back stitch is used for kamiko

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Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

O01

Rights owner

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Cultural group

Japanese

Participants

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, Kiyoko Yoshida, Toshinori Ohara

Country

Japan

Place

大原和服専門学園 Ōhara Wafuku Senmon Gakuen (a Japanese-style sewing school in Nara), Nara

Techniques of production

Sewn

Cultural context/event

Teaching-learning

Location

School

Date of creation

2023-06-20

Unique ID

2019SG04-O01-0666

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