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
Funding
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