of cloth

cotton double knit

four years ago  on my previous trip to japan  i discovered  many things one of them that the japanese have a powerful vibrant fabric industry. not only is their handmade cloth exeptional, but also their industrial woven cloth is beautiful,innovative and well designed.

this time i made a point of spending time in nippori in tokyo after visiting some stores in kyoto.

cotton double knit

                                                                                   

linen knit

                                                                                                                                                    have never seen such a variety of great looking knitted fabric in all materials. went wild with the linen knits and bought about 3 and that was being very judicious.

the cottons are a bit heavy, great for jackets for the oviedo weather.

the linens, still waiting for two, will be floaty langelook dresess.                                               lots of sewing ahead, but waiting for the boxes with the patterns and  all the sewing (tools?) doohickeys i bought. another field day at 
customs for the officials!                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                         

                                                                                                          

 neki desu

stuff from japan

the first boxes are already here, in less than 3 months.still battling with customs for the others.

it has been a comedy of errors and lots of dysfunctions. the other option would have been buying a bigger suitcase and schlepping it across japan-NOT and then putting it through at the airport. that would have meant getting the bag held at the first transfer bcse of the contents. they are not trained to  discriminate between drugs and bengara pigment. for them it's just  funny looking powder.

whichever way you lose.ಠ ಠ

so here's my bengara both flavors,raw and heated. the white soy beans were sourced in barcelona. the milk extracted from them works much better as binder than regular soy .wasn't going to bring 2kgs of soy beans from japan!  2 and a half months later would still be there in customs giving explanations.

my only yarn purchase:two skeins of beautiful kibiso.
need to think carefully what i want to do with them.









neki desu

pongee

after a week of battling with customs some vicarious weaving.
happy belated solstice.
have a great first summer weekend







neki desu