{"id":631,"date":"2020-08-25T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=631"},"modified":"2020-08-23T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:01:53","slug":"block-printed-tenugui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/block-printed-tenugui\/","title":{"rendered":"Block Printed Tenugui"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In discussion within Clan Yama Kaminari, we thought it would be nice to have some <em>tenugui<\/em> hand towels printed with the Clan <em>mon<\/em>. I already had the printing block cut, so It was only a couple days&#8217; work to make two dozen of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/tenugui-kaminari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/tenugui-kaminari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Cotton hand towels printed with the mark of Clan Yama Kaminari<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Each <em>tenugui<\/em> is a yard long and about 15 inches wide. I used cotton muslin because it was on sale at the fabric store. Typically, <em>tenugui<\/em> use a looser weave of cotton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a rolled edge on each rectangle using the serger to keep them from fraying. <em>Tenugui<\/em> made with traditional fabric have selvedges at the proper width, and the ends are just left to fray. If I buy <em>tenugui<\/em>, I usually hem them myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>mon<\/em> is block-printed at each end, centered in the width of the fabric, using Jacquard Textile Color in &#8220;Ruby Red&#8221;. This pigment yields a good solid color, without changing the texture the way paint would, or bleeding along the fibers the way dye would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussion within Clan Yama Kaminari, we thought it would be nice to have some tenugui hand towels printed with the Clan mon. I already had the printing block cut, so It was only a couple days&#8217; work to make two dozen of these. Each tenugui is a yard long and about 15 inches wide. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,6,135,41,3,5],"tags":[227,360,219,8,228,357,358],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heraldry","category-japanese","category-largesse","category-miscellany","category-projects","category-sca","tag-block-printing","tag-clan-yama-kaminari","tag-fabric-painting","tag-japanese","tag-printing-fabric","tag-tenugui","tag-towels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}