2022-07-04
Shirts using our kyo-katagami patterns are now available from the Beams Plus brand.
The two patterns are “Suimon” and “Ho-tsume”.
These patterns seem to have been made at the end of the Edo period.
Now let us introduce the original katagami.
First is the “Suimon” pattern.
The pattern “Suimon” is a design of ripples on the surface of the water.
Next is “Ho-tsume”.
“Ho-tsume” is a pattern that represents the front view of old sailboats.
It feels very modern.
2022-06-03
The renewal of our website has finally finished.
We’d like to introduce new information, which we could not inform you about before.
Eight of our kyo-katagami were featured in the January 2020 issue of “Monthly A WORLD OF WONDERS” -Happy and Fun Edo Patterns- by Kumagai Hiroto (illustrations and text) published by Fukuinkan.
The author, Mr. Kumagai Hiroto, is a book designer.
He collects and researches “wasarasa(Japanese chintz) and katagami(Japanese pattern papers) and also gives lectures on them.
I met him for the first time when I was invited as a panelist at the KATAGAMI Style exhibition commemorative symposium held at the Mie Prefectural Art Museum in the fall of 2012.
As you feel from this picture book, he has a warm personality.
This is the cover of “Monthly A WORLD OF WONDERS”. It is studded with pictures by Mr. Kumagai.
This is “Yakko kites”. (p7)
This is a design of “Hinamatsuri(Doll festival)”. (p9,p3)
There are 6 pictures on this page. (p18,p19)
This is “Octopus”.
Some of them are trying to get into the octopus pots. (1/6)
This is a motif of “fart”.
It is also called “fart battle”. (2/6)
This is a “child’s game”. (3/6)
This is a “battle between a monkey and a crab”.
Two different designs on the same theme. (4/6,5/6)
(Refer also to p3)
This is a design of “Kitsune no Yomeiri (Wedding of the Fox). (6/6)
2012-09-30
Exhibited at the Kyoto katagami exhibition.
2011-12-12
ローで、線描きして、その中に多色の色さしをして柄を表現するのはよくある技法です。
また、それを総てローで伏せて、地色をつける(引染)ことも、よくあることです。
しかしながら、その線描きとロー伏せの間に、ほんの少し(1mm?)のすきまをあけて、伏せる表現方法を考案した職人さんがおられます。
さし色と線のあいだに地色が入るため、さらに柄全体の表現に深みが出る技法です。
これを「ずぼら伏せ」という名前をつけておられました。
2011-08-27
もうすぐ九月、重陽の節句ですので菊尽くしでアップしました。
詳細は次回に。