Katazome Textiles
Katazome is a resist dye technique in which a paste of rice flour and bran is applied to cloth through a cut paper stencil. This paste is applied with a flat, blunt tool or a brush: where the paste has been pushed onto the cloth, dye will not penetrate. Dyes can be applied using an immersion method, by hand tinting, or by a combination of these applications, depending on the complexity of the desired effect. If the cloth is to be seen from both sides, the application of rice paste through a stencil is applied to both sides of a cloth, requiring an amazing technical skill for exact registration of the stencil on front and back. From time to time we will offer katazome fabrics along with the amazingly complex and beautiful katagami, or hand cut paper stencils which are made of mulberry paper saturated with green persimmon tannin (kaki-shibu). Katagami are used to guide the rice paste onto the cloth, to imprint the pattern and to establish the repeats that create a full length of finished cloth. Also included in this section are textiles that are created using a similar technique to katazome, such as tenugui towels, which are made using a stencil an employ a tecnique related to katazome.
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