“This is not silk!” — The moment a woman in Mexico opened the box
Behind a customer's complaint, the story of a vintage meisen haori from Japan — silk woven from waste cocoons (tsumugi), once worn by ordinary women in the earl...
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The government-operated model silk mill_The Age of Meisen 1905-1964
The National Yarn Factory was established in Tomioka, Gumma in 1872. It is the Japanese first full-scale machine spinning factory. The Meiji state had begun to put in place the infrastructure of a capitalist industrial economy by the early 1880s. Then,... Read More | Share it now!
Modern Silk Roads_The Age of Meisen 1905-1964
The Peak production of cocoons in Japan was around 1930.The rural areas of northern and western Tokyo became influential production areas. Agrarian society played a critical role in the economic transformation of Meiji(1868-192) Japan. It was a vital... Read More | Share it now!
Kasuri met Chiné silk ?_The Age of Meisen 1905-1964
The textile technique which became the foundation of Meisen is stripes and ikat. In the 16th century, striped fabrics flowed into Japan through trade with China, India and Southeast Asia, and became popular in the Edo period. Ikat’s technology... Read More | Share it now!
Meisen Kimonos as Japanese Art Nouveau_The Age of Meisen 1905-1964
During the “modern” period, women’s clothes changed from kimonos to western clothes. After the 1960s, kimonos were produced for formal luxury goods. Meisen is Art Nouveau, when it is positioned in Japanese art history. Umberto Eco commented... Read More | Share it now!