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The Everlasting Kimono (Read 2678 times)

khrome

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The Everlasting Kimono
Jul 29^th, 2005 at 4:00am

Wow I just read the neatest thing! So I was doing a search for combs, and this site came up for tsuge combs (boxwood). It was of a woman who had made a case for a comb that she gave to her daughter as a gift. She made the case out of a kimono she wore 50 years ago, when she was 6. Other scraps of the kimono went to handmade dolls. Her crafting is amazing! She even did the dolls hair's up traditional Japanese style.

Anyway, I just found it rather fascinating, reading about how the kimono was handed down through her family.

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/~cfa46480/ohari/english/shugei-all/wa/comb.html

If you click on the link " my childhood's kimono", you will go into the doll pages.

Cynde

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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: The Everlasting Kimono Reply #1 - Jul 29^th, 2005 at 1:42pm What a wonderful way to value the cloth and maintain memories! The closest thing I every had to this was the winter coat my mother made me out of one of my Dad's suit coats!
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juri Stardust Offline Posts: 1341 USA Gender:	Re: The Everlasting Kimono Reply #2 - Jul 29^th, 2005 at 9:59pm Thanks for posting the link, Khrome! I can't believe how much work went into making that cloth doll.
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Autumn Emerald Offline I love Long Hair! Posts: 380 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: The Everlasting Kimono Reply #3 - Jul 30^th, 2005 at 12:56am What an inspiration ... THANKS for posting the site!
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Ruzika Sapphire Offline 1a/1b F ii Posts: 178 Florida Gender:	Re: The Everlasting Kimono Reply #4 - Jul 30^th, 2005 at 10:12pm Oh wow, I just love that, it's a nice idea and the end result was great.
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Re: The Everlasting Kimono
Reply #5 - Aug 2^nd, 2005 at 9:17pm

That site reminds me of one of my favorite craft books, Omiyage by Kumiko Sudo. It's full of patterns for little bags, pouches, pin cushions, etc to make from scraps of material, like those from the kimonos (of course I have to use more prosaic cotton, but I make do with what's available. Cheesy

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I loved the sage of the cat collar; make one, make a new one, make a new one..... Grin

Cats are the same all over.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.----Dorothy Parker&&Life is pain...anyone who says differently is selling something--The Princess Bride

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