MONPE Fes/ eel bed

Let's wear Kurume Kasuri and MONPE to festivals!

Kurume Kasuri MONPE is perfect for outdoor festivals and music festivals. It is lightweight, dries quickly, and is comfortable to wear. Moreover, this pattern is Kurume-gasuri, but the fabric has a stateless feel that does not resemble Kurume-gasuri.

Two characteristics of Kurume Kasuri

1. the texture of the fabric

Because Kurume-gasuri is woven on an old-fashioned shuttle loom that is over 60 years old, the weaving speed is slower than on modern looms.

2. How to Create Patterns and Patterns

The various patterns and designs of Kurume Kasuri are not printed, but created by dyeing each thread individually before weaving. The pattern is expressed by aligning and shifting the dyed and undyed portions of the threads.

Depending on whether the warp threads are dyed separately, the weft threads are dyed separately, or yarn-dyed single-color threads are used, various types of patterns and patterns are created, including plain, stripe, check, tate-kasuri, yoko-kasuri, tate-yoko-kasuri, knit-dye, and bunjin-kasuri. Although machines are used for "kumikuri," "dyeing," and "weaving," they are old-fashioned machines and require human hands. This human intervention is one of the interesting and tasteful aspects of Kurume-gasuri.

Understanding the differences in sizes and fabrics

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Japanese Jeans "MONPE

The "monpe" was established after World War II as farm work clothes, and its shape was large around the hips and had a loose silhouette. Eel Bedding developed this product in response to requests from local residents who wanted to make monpe using fabrics from antiques and kimono that they had left in their wardrobes. While saving cloth, the monpe was designed to be simple, taking advantage of its width of about 36 cm (kimono length), and as a result, a slim "monpe" was born with the functionality of a monpe intact. This is the standard MONPE of today.