Yoroidan Tesuji and Tsukidashi Shibori Tenugui

**If you are interested in a sold out tenugui, please email staff@yoshikowada.com to request a notification when it will be in stock. Production and delivery of certain tenugui can take up to one  month from Arimatsu, Japan.   Pleated-resist & small knotted-resist over a pin in horizontal bands Technique: Tesuji Shibori - Resisted stripes created by continuous rows, hand-pleated and bound evenly around a rope / Tsukidashi Shibori - Small circle-knotted resist, created by wrapping thread and tying a kamosage (half-hitch)  knot over a blunt needle. Process illustrations are from the book “Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing” by Wada, Rice, and Barton. (c)1983 Pattern: Yoroidan -  Stripes (literally “great armor”), derived from yoroi or Ō-yoroi, a type of plated samurai armor from feudal Japan. ' Ō-yoroi were visually recognizable from the horizontally striped pattern created by plated scales laced horizontally over an armor plate. The stripe design and col