The Naga-ita Chugata Aizome Dyeing Technique
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With the recent yukata boom in the last few years, yukata of elaborate and colorful designs have appeared in number. While this trend might be considered a new fashin, in the Edo period yukata were likewise worn at times as fashionable casual dress with a multiple of elaborate patterns made with expensive labor-intensive dyeing techniques, primarily tie-dye and stencil dyeing. This essay considers one of these dye techniques, the traditional naga-ita chugata aizome method of stencil dyeing,and describes the details of this dyeing technique based on personal observation of the process at the Noguchi Some-Kojo workshop in Hachioji, Tokyo.