Gangi Mokume Shibori Tenugui

Gangi Mokume Shibori Tenugui**If you are interested in a sold out tenugui, please email info@shibori. com to request a notification when it will be in stock. Production and delivery of certain tenugui can take up to one month from Arimatsu, Japan. Zigzag stitch resist in dancette pattern or repeated mitered corners Technique: Mokume Shibori Parallel running stitches along the weft in a zigzag pattern are gathered and scrunched to create a wood grain (mokume) resist pattern.

**If you are interested in a sold out tenugui, please email [email protected] to request a notification when it will be in stock. Production and delivery of certain tenugui can take up to one month from Arimatsu, Japan.

Zigzag stitch-resist in dancette pattern or repeated mitered corners

Technique: Mokume Shibori - Parallel running stitches along the weft in a zigzag pattern are gathered  and scrunched to create a wood-grain (mokume) resist pattern. Process illustrations are from the book “Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing”  by Wada, Rice, and Barton. (c)1983

Pattern: Gangi - a general term in Japanese design to describe a zigzag pattern; also used in architecture

Color: Indigo/White

Approximately 1m x 35cm (39in x 13in)

100% Cotton

Handmade in Arimatsu, Japan

Tenugui are scarf-size, all-purpose towels made of lightweight cotton, used in Japan for centuries and recently popularized and collected because of their beautiful patterns and graphic designs.

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