Furoshiki / KOKURA SHIMA SHIMA

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Craft Company: Kokura Shima Shima

ORIGIN: Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture
MATERIAL: Cotton

A new world of stripes

Stripes are a universal beauty loved all over the world. With a high warp count, Kokura-ori brings elegant stripes to us. The vertical stripe extending forward without obstruction, leading us to a bright future.

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Plain weave
- Technique
The simplest of the three fundamental types of weave: plain, satin, and twill. Plain weave is created by weaving the warp (vertical threads) and weft (horizontal threads) in an up-and-down pattern, alternating each row.
Shima (Stripe)
- Generic term
A pattern consisting of straight lines produced by the color scheme of warp and weft thread. Up until the Momoyama period (1573 – 1603), this pattern was not called 縞 – shima then but 筋 – suji, which has a meaning closer to “line.” From the early modern era, many stripe-patterned textiles were brought to Japan by European ships mainly from Spain or Portugal. Since these striped textiles were brought from another continent across the ocean, people started to call them shima-mono, literally “island things.” From this, they later adopted a different character for shima (縞, meaning “stripe”) which is a homonym of the character for “island” (島, also read as shima).
Kokura-ori
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Cotton textile made in Kokura, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. Good quality and durable fabric featuring vertical stripes.

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