Single ikat (NUKI KASURI)

a pattern with wide thread

weave KASURI with a pattern of curved shapes like flower patterns and polkdots and so on.

warping , KUKURI tecnique, dyeing, paste, divided a thread and so on.

It takes two months to complete the products.

Finally,make twenty strands of KASURI yarn.

「NUKIMAKI」progress

bind KASURI yarn around twenty plates of elongated wood by using a special tool.

Most of the stroke manually.
wind it up along guidelines.

The line which formed straight a line becomes the right-side end when weave it.

weave in a power weaving machine in this technique only as for KURUME KASURI.
The succession of the craftsman is important.