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RJB Kasuri Shirt - Red

• Kasuri Fabric - Hand Loomed
• Hand Dyed Threads with Indigo and Discharge Solvent
• Brushed Outer
• Mother of Pearl Inlay Buttons
• Mast of all seams (shoulder, side etc) are finished with a lap seam (felled)
• Rinsed (will not shrink)

Kasuri (絣) is a Japanese textile technique that literally means "splashed pattern". The Kasuri technique is done in the warp or weft or both threads. The threads are covered with paper, or plastic or any other material that will resist the dye then the dye is pressed into the threads by hand creating a very uneven dye pattern. Thus the warp or weft threads are dyed in patterns or designs before the threads are woven.

The the irregularities in the dyeing of the threads can identify this technique. Indigo dye is used for kasuri as well as pigment dyes and discharge techniques, such as what is used on this shirt by Real Japan Blues. This weaving and dye technique is very labor intensive and unfortunately, in today's Japan, only a few elderly weavers of this technique continue their textile artistry.

On the Black shirt the red print is from a Kasuri pattern while the white lines are painted on by hand with a discharge "ink" and on the Red shirt the black lines are from the Kasuri weave and the white lines are painted on by hand. Yes, we said painted on, by hand. Every line is a brushstroke.