Koyen Textile Co., Ltd. is exhibited Shadow Weaving at The 94th TOKYO INTERNATIONAL Gift Show Autumn 2022.
website:https://koenorimono.com/
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This weave, it’s called Kageori.
Our company will be a textile factory for 100 years next year, and we have been refining our weaving techniques for a long time.
Our company will be a textile factory for 100 years next year, and we have been refining our weaving techniques for a long time.
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I wanted to make fabrics that would create shadows when exposed to sunlight or moonlight, and I wanted to weave them. This is the kind of shadow weaving that we developed.
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Basically, one color or two colors is fine, but for this chambray colored fabric, we tried to weave it in such a way as to create shadows.
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Our looms and weaving machines are computer-controlled, so we can weave fabrics with jagged edges like this.
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Shadows like dots, diagonal lines, and so on.
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I’m working on adding more patterns and variations to the shadows.
![](https://www.tenji.tv/wp-content/uploads/video_img/giftshow_2022_09/giftshow_2022_09_01-8.jpg)
I can create shadows with one color, but I want to use two or three colors to create more depth, like gray or black or whatever.
![](https://www.tenji.tv/wp-content/uploads/video_img/giftshow_2022_09/giftshow_2022_09_01-10.jpg)
I wanted to bring out the depth of the gray, but not the same gray, or the black, but not the same black, and so I used two colors or three colors.
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I added several kinds of threads to express this.