{"id":1394,"date":"2025-09-09T17:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:56:47","slug":"violet-silk-kosode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/violet-silk-kosode\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Silk Kosode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last summer we were out in Rockaway for a niece&#8217;s wedding, and realized two things: we were probably close enough to Brooklyn that we could probably find a few bottles of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklyngin.com\/products\/brooklyn-gin\/\">Brooklyn Gin<\/a>, and we were probably close enough to the fashion district that we could probably find a good fabric store. It turns out we were right on both counts! The fabric store had a lot of great silks, and I got some shiny violet silk that I knew would make a very fancy kosode.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69d71e422dfdb&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69d71e422dfdb\" class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/kosode-silk-violet.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:512px\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kosode from Violet Silk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This was great to sew. I have not worked with this kind of silk in many years, since I made the <a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/jgarb-fancy.jpg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/jgarb-fancy.jpg\">Gray Silk Kosode<\/a> in 2006. I had a really hard time with it back then, and it was nice to see that my fabric handling ability and sewing skills have improved considerably over time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also enjoyed drinking the gin. Mmm, gin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer we were out in Rockaway for a niece&#8217;s wedding, and realized two things: we were probably close enough to Brooklyn that we could probably find a few bottles of Brooklyn Gin, and we were probably close enough to the fashion district that we could probably find a good fabric store. It turns out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,106,6,3,5,4],"tags":[182,815,205,814],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clothing-japanese","category-garb","category-japanese","category-projects","category-sca","category-sewing","tag-kosode","tag-purple","tag-silk","tag-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}