Awa Shijira-ori: Awa Shijira Weaving
December 24, 2015Awa Shijira-ori is attractive for its unevenness called shibo (凹凸) as it adds particular texture and beauty. Vivid shibo emerges by immersing innovatively woven cloth in boiling water of about 75℃and then drying.
One method to make shibo is to interweave two kinds of warp with different tensility in the same organization so that shrunken warps can create wrinkles and shrinks. Another method is to weave with one kind of warp in a mixed organization and then to immerse in hot water. (A unique striped pattern is produced from alternate weaving of two weft followed by one weft in between the warps. Clothes with this pattern were woven mainly for farmers in the Edo period (17-19c)).
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Awa Shijira-ori: Awa Shijira Weaving
Translation by: Yoshinori Sakamoto, reviewed by Yoshiko Nagao
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