Observing the dyeing process!

Dyeing tenugui begins with folding the fabric.

After folding it into a folding screen shape, fold it into a triangle from the edge.

When the folding is finished, the cloth is placed between two boards and board-tightened. By rearranging the way the cloth is folded, they are inventing new designs every day.

After folding the cloth, it is time to make dyes. The dyes are made based on the notebooks in which the designs were written down.

Once you've made the dye solution, it's time to dye!

The dyeing process involves calculating the rate of penetration for each color, since it is necessary to know how much soaking is necessary for the color to soak in well, and if soaking is done too much, the pattern will be destroyed. This is a technique where experience really counts.

In less than 5 minutes, nearly 10 pieces of cloth were finished being dyed in no time! The product is completed after the process of washing in water, washing again in boiling water to remove excess dye, and then drying in the sun!

This is what it looked like after it was completed. Thank you Ms. Ito and Ms. Muraguchi!

"In the future, we would like to have our own factory and open our own store," they said. On our way home, we met up with a staff member who was in Arimatsu for another interview, and we were told by a neighbor that "there is a very nice store called marimomen, you should try it! We felt that the shop is loved by the local people.

Through this interview, as a woman, I thought it was very cool to see her trying to create new things while preserving Japanese tradition. The products that we carefully create one by one in a harsh work environment that is hot in the summer and cold in the winter are all attractive. Please come and visit marimomen, which breathes a new breeze while still retaining its tradition.