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¡¡ANTIQUE RYU JAPAN ORIGINAL T-SHIRTœRYUKYU BINGATA¡¡

High quality T-shirt, especially for You!!!

Ryujiro Okamura presents ANTIQUE RYU JAPAN ORIGINAL T-SHIRT, "RYUKYU BINGATA".
We are selling it from the middle of June.@You can book it NOW!!!

These designs have been not completed yet. The color of the T-shirt will be natural material color of hemp. It will not be pure white. It will be light grayish brown.
This T-shirt has a RAKKAN (stamp) of Ms. Yumi Nakamura who is a crafts man of RYUKYU BINGATA.
If you see my web shop, there is a fabric category and her pieces are sold there.
It is about $5000 for a cloth of kimono and about $2000 for a cloth of obi.

I was able to reduce the price of the T-shirt, because I know her well and asked to her to give me a good price. Possibly around $200-$300.

There are some pictures in the gallery of my web shop. They are three kinds of pattern of the T-shirts, process of making of the T-shirt and process of a cloth kimono.

Carp with Moon, Crane with Sunrise, Drooping cherry tree. All are patterns to symbolize Japan.
Drooping cherry will be a little changed such as some more cherry blossoms.

The T-shirt can make only about 30 pieces in a month. Therefore I may have you wait after an order. Please understand it beforehand.

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[ 1 ] CRANE WITH SUNRISE!!
Material Hemp (choma).
Technique RYUKYU BINGATA.

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[ 6 ] CARP WITH MOON!!
Material Hemp. (choma).
Technique RYUKYU BINGATA.

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[ 10 ] Drooping cherry tree!!
Material Hemp (choma).
Techniqe RYUKYU BINGATA.

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[ 13 ] There are two methods of dyeing bingata: stencil dyeing (katazome) and free-hand paste resist dying (tsutsugaki). The difference between the two is the application of the resist paste. In the former, stencil paper is necessary, while in the latter, an outline of the pattern is drawn directly on the cloth by squeezing paste out of a bag. Once the resist paste is applied, both of these methods follow the same color dyeing and finishing processes. A combination of vegetable dyes and pigments are used in making the colors in bingata. Unless the back ground is left white, it is dyed in the desired color.
The following is an explanation of the stencil-dyeing process.

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[ 14 ] Stencil paper.

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[ 18 ] The stencil paper is placed on the cloth to be dyed, and the paste is applied onto it with a spatula that coats the cut-out portions of the stencil with resist paste.

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[ 23 ] The pattern is dyed. First, a thin layer of dye is spread all over the pattern. This process is repeated three times to ensure color fastness.