{"id":1504,"date":"2026-01-11T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2025-12-27T21:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:01:26","slug":"sewing-for-a-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/sewing-for-a-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing for a Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very good friend of ours was elevated to the Order of the Mark yesterday for his years of excellence with thrown weapons and related service. Hara and I made this <em>hitatare sugata<\/em> for him to wear for his elevation. Hara found the wonderful silk brocade online, and she made the <em>hakama<\/em>. I made the <em>hitatare<\/em> and the braided embellishments.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/hitatare-kumagaya.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/hitatare-kumagaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:512px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Silk Brocade Hitatare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I also made the white <em>tekkou<\/em> bracers from some excellent white silk, and lined them with white linen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/tekkou-mark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/tekkou-mark.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:512px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White Tekkou (Bracers) from Silk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I also made the <em>jinbaori<\/em> arming jacket. Hara bought the lining, and Alime bint Yorgi found the shell fabric. We might later replace the buttons with new buttons shaped like the Mark badge.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/jinbaori-mark-front.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/jinbaori-mark-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:auto;height:512px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jinbaori Front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On the back, I embroidered a Mark badge onto some of the extra lining fabric, then turned the edges under and sewed the square down to the center of the back.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/jinbaori-mark-back.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/jinbaori-mark-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:auto;height:512px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jinbaori Back with Mark Badge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is some of the shiniest, most extravagant garb I have ever made. It was my special pleasure to make these garments for Kuma because I was otherwise prevented from attending his elevation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good friend of ours was elevated to the Order of the Mark yesterday for his years of excellence with thrown weapons and related service. Hara and I made this hitatare sugata for him to wear for his elevation. Hara found the wonderful silk brocade online, and she made the hakama. I made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,106,6,94,3,599,5,4],"tags":[486,12,231,229,740,109,205,873],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clothing-japanese","category-garb","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-projects","category-regalia","category-sca","category-sewing","tag-brocade","tag-hakama","tag-hitatare","tag-hitatare-sugata","tag-jinbaori","tag-linen","tag-silk","tag-tekkou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","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=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}