![]() After a few days of living together happily, the old couple decided to let her stay at home for good. The next day, and the day after that, it continued snowing so hard that she could not go out. In return, the girl cooked and cleaned the house. The old couple felt sorry for her and were happy to let her stay. Is it possible to let me stay here for a night?” The woman said: “I’ve come to this village to visit someone, but I’m lost. The grandma opened the door and saw a beautiful woman standing there in the snow. That night, as he was telling his wife about the crane, there was a knock at the door. The old man felt pity for the crane and saved it. One winter’s day, the old man went out to work and on his way he found a crane caught in a trap. Every time I think of what I experienced there, it reminds me of “The Crane of Gratitude (Tsuru no Ongaeshi)” which is a famous Japanese folk tale. It’s because you have to keep the pressure on your back to keep the wrap straight. Obviously, it takes a lot of time to weave cloth for clothing.Įven though I was still young, sitting on the floor for two days in a row, weaving, gave me a backache. That allowed me to weave much faster and over a larger area than with thread, but even so, I could only weave a little lug which was as big as a double sized table mat in two days. For the warp, we used thick thread, but for the weft, we used scraps of cloth that we tore and joined together instead of normal thread. I stayed at the workshop in Kyoto one night and wove for several hours straight. If I’d just wanted to do indigo dyeing, I could have experienced it on a day trip, but the primitive loom takes a long time to weave even a small piece, so I took an overnight course. Of course, this is the most common way of weaving, but the primitive loom is a relatively low-cost way of getting started, as it can be constructed from everyday objects.įor this reason, there are still people in the countryside in South East Asia who weave cloth using this method. Many people think of weaving on a loom as sitting in front of a little machine with a clattering sound and operating it. You need to pass the weft from side to side in front of your belly to weave cloth. In the primitive loom, one bundle of warp threads is fixed to a post, while the other is fixed at your low back. In order to weave cloth, you need warp and weft yarns, which are then passed over the warp and woven together. “Backstrap weaving”, which is called “Primitive weaving” in Japanese, literally is using a loom made on primitive principles. In the first place, I wanted to try indigo dyeing, but I was also interested in “backstrap weaving” which they offered as a course in addition to herb dyeing. ![]() Although it was a time when online searching didn’t exist yet, I luckily found a workshop in the countryside of Kyoto where you could try your hand at herb dyeing. When I was in my twenties, I read a book about these hill tribes and became interested in herbal dyes, especially indigo dyeing. Because of the repeated dyeing process, even their fingers and skin are dyed with the colour. ![]() In the mountainous of South East Asia, there are ethnic minorities who only wear items dyed with specific dyes.
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