Vintage design tenugui added

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We added newly 29 vintage designs tenugui. Many of these designs come from old tenugui design templates that used to be popular around 1950-1960's. These templates have been kept at the tenugui factory. These designs are calm, peaceful, but still beautiful.

These tenugui are manufactured by a hand-dyeing factory in Takasaki city (in Gunma Prefecture), approximately 80km north west of Tokyo. These products are only sold at stores within the city or through the domestic web store that is managed by the factory.  So, it is the first time for these tenugui to be shipped internationally.  Although the products are local, they are high quality - this tenugui factory is awarded for traditional craft skill keeper by Gunma Prefecture local governmnet.

Please take a look some of the designs from the lineup:

Camellia

Autumn fruits

 

Iris

 

Bamboo and plum flowers

Rabbits and the moon in autumn

 

Family symbols

Kanji characters describing battle standards

Daruma dolls with umbrella, but the last one with a tenugui

Seven herbs in autumn

Locomotive

Shinkansen train

Sakura flowers

Twelve zodiac

Night owls

 

Rabbits running around mountain

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Eight carps noren added

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Eight carps noren curtains have been refilled.
We created two designs - one is eight carps swimming in various directions, and the other is swimming towards in one direction.
These norens are made of 100% linen, and are hand-painted by acrylic paint. Since handmade, only one stock available for each item.

Eight carps #2

Eight carps #1

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Patchwork Kinchaku pouch refilled

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We have refilled stock of Kimono patchwork Kinchaku pouch.

They are handcrafted by patchworks of vintage Kimono wears. Since handmade patchwork, only one available for each item.
Please enjoy this beautiful and cute pouch with your fashion.
The approximate dimensions are 16cm X 17.5cm (6.3" X 6.9").

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New noren curtains and furoshiki cloths added

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We have added new noren curtains and furoshiki wrapping cloths.

New lineup

Noren door curtain
Cotton 100%, a big "Bangasa" (Japanese parasol) for tea ceremony beautifully dyed in vermilion red

 

Noren door curtain
Cotton 100%, two cute Maneki-Neko (lucky cats) for beckoning fortunes for your home 

Furoshiki wrapping cloth
Cotton 100%, 100 cm X 100 cm, Sparrows designed on yellow and blue lattices

 

Furoshiki wrapping cloth
Cotton 100%, 90 cm X 90 cm, blue camellia painted on gray background

Furoshiki wrapping cloth
Cotton 100%, 90 cm X 90 cm, Ginkgo designed on beige stripes

Furoshiki wrapping cloth
Cotton 100%, 100 cm X 100 cm, two sides painted in different colors of pink and blue

Furoshiki wrapping cloth
Cotton 100%, 100 cm X 100cm,
Big plum flowers designed on both sides in different background colors of blue and beige

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We produced tenugui for Kendo Club Poitires

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We would like to announce that Kendo Club Poitiers (http://kcpoitiers.fr/) in France gave us a great opportunity to manufacture the original tenugui of the club. Mr. Jean LAMOUR from the club kindly sent us a photograph of the members smiling with  the tenugui, and he generously gave us a permission to post this photograph on our website and blog.

The club designed the tenugui of a Kendo boy fighting against red mask daemons, and we handmade the tenugui by the traditional dyeing method called "Chu-sen" in Japan. Before starting to manufacture the order, we asked the club to simplify the initial design to be producible by "Chu-sen" method, and the club kindly accepted our requests. We asked the club to reduce the number of daemons to make the size bigger, to make outlines more simple, and to change the positions of leaves and letters not to overlay each other.  We spent one month for creating hand-cutting stencil and dyeing all tenugui.

Thanks all the members of boys, girls, ladies and gentlemen of Kendo Club Poitiers for participating in the photograph shooting, and thanks again for this great opportunity.

Kendo is a Japanese traditional martial art to train minds and bodies, and is widely loved by all generation to maintain health. Kendo is a very good sport.


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Kinchaku bag stock will be refilled in October

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Currently, we have almost run out of stock of  Kinchaku handy bags.

 

We will be able to refill stock in this October, 2013. We have already ordered the artisan to provide more bags. Since these are handmade, we need several weeks to refill the stock. These bags are made by patch working of Kimono wears (100% silk).  These bags are soft and suitable for carrying small items including your iPhones.

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If wrong delivery happens

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We have received a notice from Japan Post. In a rare case, your parcel's bag with your destination label is accidentally swapped with other one's parcel during your country's customs inspection and you might receive other one's parcel instead, and as a result your correct parcel will be delivered to a wrong addressee. Your parcel will never be opened at Japanese customs, so if such an accident occurred, it would have happened during incoming parcel inspection of your country. 
If such an accident occurs, please claim to the postal service right away. All of our shipments always include invoice receipts of your order and personal letters from nipponcraft.com, so if you don't find these documents in the parcel, it is a wrong delivery.

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