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1 mars 2010

Best vintage`s fabric book

Have you ever seen this book? The Title is " HOKUO- no Kawaii Print fabric" lol

"The Scandinavian`s sweet print fabrics".　

As all of you already may know, the scandinavian´s vintage fabircs are very popular in Japan. I can say that this is the the BEST fabric book which has collected many kind of design motives such as Flower, Animanl, Fruits & Herb, Human life, Geometric, Christmas, Heart and others. Also the bags are made of the vintage fabric are introduced.

The book is consisted of 112 pages and the text is written in japanese, but there are many beautiful pictures. Just FUN to look at it!! Unfortunately, this book publisher went bankrupt recently, so it does not issue anymore...
But it may be possible to find it at the second-hand book store, if we have a good luck!!

26 feb. 2010

Scandinavian Kimono-socks

A couple months ago, I sent some 50-60tal scandinavian`s fabrics to one of my friends who is handle-named " Rapis" in Tokyo

Her main career is to design for from the classic and elegant hat to the casual cap. But recently she is addicted to make the KIMONO accessories such as the TABI (kinono socks) or the HAN-ERI (kimono collar). When I met her last summer in Tokyo, she said " It must be very interesting if I made Tabi with the Scandinavian`s vintage fabric!! "

Now I got the pictures from her and am just amazing her great job!! Soooooo pretty, isn`t it?!

Now I got her new request! She wants to re-make an OBI (Japanese kimono-belt) with the vintage fabric! Sounds so cool !! But can you guess how much length does it need to make the OBI? Yes, at least 3.5 meters.
oj oj... not easy to find such a long vintage fabric. But I will try it!!