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.
We could not find the information you were looking for. 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.
We could not find the information you were looking for. 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。