Kurume Kasuri begins with drawing a pattern on a special design sheet.
The size of the design paper is 24 to 27.5 cm in length and 38.5 cm in width. In the normal mass production type Kurume Kasuri, the pattern of one design is woven as one repeat. The woven cloth is shrunk by about 10% by boiling. Therefore, the design is written vertically by calculating the shrinkage of 10%.
For example, when drawing polka dots as shown in the photograph, the vertical and horizontal arrangement is inevitably limited to some extent when considering the balance from the size of the pattern. Basically, Kurume Kasuri is characterized by free pattern expression using the binding technique, but it is surprisingly inconvenient because mass-produced products made for distribution on the market are based on the premise that the standard of the design paper is repeated. You may feel it. It may be a kind of paradox.
I think each craftsman has his own way of thinking. I have decided to use “the aesthetics of subtraction” as one of the methods to overcome it. This design was originally designed with the image of ring patterns that are evenly spaced in the vertical and horizontal directions. However, when I tried to fit it in the design for the size of the pattern, the vertical and horizontal arrangement became cramped, and as a result, it became a horizontally long and unbalanced ring pattern. So I pulled out the handle first. Even so, I felt cramped, so I brought the two rings to the limit and completed it as a “double ring pattern”.
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