Jyuban - underwear of kimono

Please have a look the picture.It's a kimono bag. Yes, but it's made of a underwear of kimono called "Jyuban".

Jyuban is the original Portuguese of "Jibaun gibão" copied word sounds.
There are the 2 type of Jubans;

1. Hada jyuban - "Hada" means skin in Japanese. Hada jyuban is worn on skin directly. It's normally made of cotton.

2. Naga jyuban - "Naga" means long in Japanese. Naga jyuban is a full length underwear which is worn between Hada jyuban and kimono. It's a sort of business shirt under men's jacket.

Most Jyuban is made of very thin silk, so it was hard for me to use for the kimono bags.

The kimono bag is made of the vintage naga jyuban using a glue between kimono and interface without damage!

Universal Blue exhibition in Paris- Japanese indigo kimono bag

The pictures are the bags which I used Japanese indigo kimono -summer cotton kimono"yukata"(hand dyed), men's wool kimono(hand weaved). I looked the old article of my blog in 2008. I noticed that I was enjoying the indigo kimono. The reason why I have stopped making the indigo bags is; The vintage indigo kimono is pretty expensive now.

However, I feel really start to use the indigo kimono this year. The colour makes me very "calm down" - meditation and medication effect is big!

Please look at the site, The exhibition - Universal Blue in Paris

The exhibition was held this March 2011.

By the way, Yesterday, I had the kimono and paper flower workshop at Botanique Bazaar.

Thanks a lot for participants. I had the 2 session on that day. the 2nd class was a proper size and everybody finished 2 items. However, the 1st class was too big and I was sorry for everyone.

Anyway, I will try to improve the workshop style included ENGLISH EXPLANATION!!

Next Blog, I will have the workshop on my blog with pictures.

Kanoko shibori kimono bag

Kanoko shibori is mostly developed at Edo period in Kyoto, Japan. The feature is that there are the some pattern with Shibori(tied dye). The picture is the bag which made of kanoko shibori(red part) with girl's kimono(Panel). The shibori is silk and very thin, so I use heavy interface and also leather for bottom and handle. I am sorry that the picture was taken by my mobile, that's why not good and can not show the texture..