Japanese artisanal textiles + Brooklyn design

warashi-ko uses hand-dyed Japanese textiles, that are dyed with hand-cut paper stencils. Each line (whether straight or plaid or curved) is hand-cut by an artisan. This incredible process is over 100 year old and called "chusen", involving highly skilled stencil-making + hand-dyeing works.

warashi-ko works with 3 textile makers, all of which "chusen" technique to hand-dye the textiles.

Todaya is 145 years old shop with thousands of variety of "chusen" textiles. Sankatsu is 123 years old shop, which specializes in high-end summer "yukata" kimono. They use the same drawing that was created over 100 years ago to recreate the stencils. Ahiroya is owned by a contemporary designer Yuki Noguchi. Ahiroya's textiles are all designed by Noguchi, and dyed in the traditional "chusen" technique.

warashi-ko's line of products include: baby + kids + adult JINBEI casual kimono, ZUTTO pants, and AZUMA tote bags.

warashi-ko are also available on Etsy.

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#703 kiku zutto

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#703 kiku zutto

$140.00

100+ years ago, anonymous painter painted this pattern, and an artisan made it into a stencil. Sankatsu, a 100+ year old summer yukata kimono textile shop in Tokyo, still makes the textiles based on this stencil.

Zutto means all the time, and for a long time.

This pants is made with similar principles to kimono making. It's based on rectangular parts and straight stitches. This way, the pants is easy to take it apart and make into something else, like jinbei! Inheriting lovable things is warashi-ko's core policy.

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one size
elastic on the back, strings on the front for adjustment

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