ORDERS PLACED AFTER 13TH OCTOBER WILL SHIP AFTER 12TH NOVEMBER 2023!
I'LL BE BACK IN JAPAN, HUNTING DOWN (& LISTING!) EXCITING NEW ITEMS, MANY IN LIMITED QUANTITIES. FOLLOW MY TRAVELS ON INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK.
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The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook
The Ultimate Kogin Collection
The Book of Boro
NB - international shipping* is temporarily disabled. New shipping rates by weight will be coming soon!
*EU shipping can only resume when the EU simplifies its VAT regulations on mail orders. Please complain to your MEP to try to change the regs for small non EU businesses! We can't calculate, charge and remit the different amounts of VAT to all 27 EU countries four times a year, when we are one person businesses. It is too much admin and too expensive to employ an EU based agent as currently required.
Sarasa derives from the same word as 'calico' and was the Japanese response to imported Indian cottons which were first imported perhaps as early as the 15th century by Portuguese traders. During the Edo era, this luxury cloth continued to be imported by the Dutch. Imported sarasa was very, very expensive, despite being a cotton cloth, and reserved for the samurai class. In more recent years, sarasa style has been popular for kimono fabrics, on silk and wool. It usually has beautifully subdued colours.
Olympus Thread Mfg. Co. produced a range of fabrics inspired by sarasa a few years ago, and I've managed to get hold of the very last few bolts! So what I have listed here is absolutely all I can get hold of - unless they introduce a new range inspired by the same style.
