Bag
Shibori on un-bleached eco-friendly cotton bag. Size: 18" x 25"
Put this bag in your main bag as an eco-friendly shopping bag.
It's light, thin and strong. Un-bleached organic cotton. 18" x 25"
Use Itajime Shibori(wood-blocked tie dye) on thick linen w. leather handle.
Itajime Shibori on light blue thin cotton.
Itajime Shibori on white thick linen.
Beauty
The indigo dye has many varieties of methods to create the patterns on. I was fascinated by the most simple and primitive method among them called “Sibori” (tie dye) which had rapidly developed and populated about 400 years ago in Japan.
Now in Japan, there are over 100 Shibori techniques that have been inherited since then. The principle of Shibori is quite simple. The part of the fabric tied by strings will remain as white (original color) and the rest not tied will be dyed indigo blue.
Once the fabric is tied, I can not see how the pattern will come out until the dye process is completed and the strings are untied. Right after I untie them, there are no words to say when the unexpected pattern appears into my sight with harmony of my own will and nature’s will.
I’ am absorbed in making Shibori simpler and bringing Shibori to the modern era. Simplicity rather than complexity, contingency rather than inevitability and imperfection rather than perfection. That's my beauty.