Yellow Somewake 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.   Stitched and large bound-resist parti-colored Technique: Somewake Shibori - Parti-colored dyeing is essential when the design calls for bold dark & light or contrasting colored areas as seen in the kimono worn by the woman in the print. This process is done by stitching in the middle (white resist line). The fabric is dyed first in yellow, then one side is capped to preserve the yellow while the other side is dyed in medium blue to create green. This is similar to oke shibori, tub-resist dyeing, where a large section of a bolt of fabric is placed in a container and thus preserved from dye. Process illustrations are from the book “Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing”  by Wada, Rice, and Barton. (c)1983 Pattern: Some comes from a Japane