Cloth design dyed with tenassen papier-mache
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Cloth design dyed with tenassen papier-mache
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HISTORY These komon patterns were grown in Kanazawa Tenassen is a technique to cut out small dots in card boards to make patterns. The patterns are used as stencil when dyeing kimono textile. The technique developed from the middle term of the Edo period and used in kamishimo and noshime formal clothes. In Ishikawa Prefecture, it is noted that there were 14 tenassen craftsmen during the Bunka period. Later, improvements are made to cut out small, middle and large dots as well as a variety of designs. These designs are known as Kaga komon (fine pattern). In the later term of the Meiji period, these stencil techniques were used together with hand- drawings in Kaga Yuzen Silk, making the designs more detailed. CHARACTERISTICS Over 400 patterns for one kimono It requires one pattern for one color when dyeing kimono. Thus, it takes more than 400 patterns to finish one kimono. Craftsmen are required of high skills to cut out a number of same patterns at an extreme precision, as patterns are repeated on kimono textile. The paper used in the patterns are Ise katagami. After the designs are cut out, the patterns are fortified with lacquer or lined with silk gauze and lacquer. |
*NOTO LINEN/ *OHI
POTTERY/ *KAGA INLAY
*TEA CEREMONY KETTLE/ *TSURUGI
CUTLERY
*KAGA LION HEAD/ *BAMBOO
WEAVING
*KAGA FLY ROD/ *KANAZAWA
PAPER UMBRELLA
*KAGA PAPER LANTERN/ *LOCAL
TOY
*KOTO/ *SANGEN/
*JAPANESE DRUM
*BRONZE GONG/ *KAGA
MIZUHIKI
*NANAO JAPANESE CANDLE
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*NOTO FIREWORKS
*KANAZAWA INTERIOR DECORATION