[Ponte Alto] Reminder: Japanese Sewing Circle (2/20)

[Ii Saburou]

Reminder that we will be holding a Japanese sewing circle this weekend at 
our house, from noon until whenever--if you can only come later, so be it. 
We have plenty of steamables (cha-shu pork buns) and fryables 
(potstickers) and may even call out for pizza.

We may have fabric, if you contact us ahed of time.  Otherwise, fabric 
requirements are below for women.  We plan to work on two types of 
10th-12th C. Japanese garments (kariginu and hitoe style garments).  If 
you have questions, let us know!

-Ii

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:48:33 -0900 (AKST)
From: Ii Saburou <logan at modzer0.cs.uaf.edu>
To: asiannights at yahoogroups.com, moo at stierbach.org,
     Ponte Alto Mailing List <ponte-alto at atlantia.sca.org>
Subject: Japanese Sewing Circle (Ni-dai)

To recap:  Sewing Japanese garb at our house, Feb. 20th, 1 PM.
There are some sources for silk below.  Please let us know if you plan to come 
so that we can have an idea of how many people we need to be ready for.

Women:
For the women we will work on hitoe-style garments to be layered as 
appropriate.  For this you will need:

(Per hitoe-style garment you would like to make:)
Fabric: Silk.  Thick organza (16mm or greater), plain-weave or twill. Anything 
with body will work, as long as it is not too thick.
Size: 45" @ 5~6 yd or 60" @ 5~6 yd (or 60" @ 8 yd to make two!)
Color: Any color is good, but the combinations should generally follow 'kasane 
no irome':

   http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/japanese/Irome.htm
   http://www.tim.hi-ho.ne.jp/hebiguchi/d_colksn_e.htm

Note: we may have silk and other fabrics available to sell if people are 
interested.  Otherwise we recommend http://thaisilks.com and 
http://www.silkconnection.com

NOTE: Avoid 'slubby' silks, like dupioni, in general.  That 'natural' look we 
so often like today was looked down on in Japan, where it was seen as evidence 
of unskilled laborers in the making of the silk.

-Ii