Chemistry:Echigo-jofu

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Short description: Fabric of Echigo, Japan

Echigo-jofu (越後上布) is a fabric of Echigo, Japan on national Important Cultural Properties listing in 1955,[1][2] and UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list since 2009.[3] It is made from fine bast fiber from the ramie plant (Boehmeria nivea), also called hemp, although not directly related to cannabis hemp.[lower-alpha 1] After it is woven on a jibata backstrap loom (地機), the fabric is spread on snowfields (yuki-zarashi) where ultraviolet light from the sun creates ozone and bleaches it white.[5][6] The fabric is used to make summer kimono and other traditional garments, cushions and bed linens.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ See Morphological Differences Between Ramie and Hemp: How These Characteristics Developed Different Procedures in Bast Fiber Producing Industry;[4] also see :wikt:麻布

References

  1. ↑ Survey on the Selected Conservation Techniques – Silk thread for strings of traditional Japanese instrument, Cypress bark roof, and Ramies in Showa Village, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, 2014, http://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/ekatudo/205864.html 
  2. ↑ exhibit, Kyoto Women's University, Lifestyle Design Laboratory via Google Arts and Culture
  3. ↑ Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture, UNESCO, https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/lojiya-chijimi-echigo-jofu-techniques-de-fabrication-du-tissu-de-ramie-dans-la-region-duonuma-de-la-prefecture-de-niigata-00266?RL=00266 
  4. ↑ Hwang, Min Sun (2010), "Morphological Differences Between Ramie and Hemp: How These Characteristics Developed Different Procedures in Bast Fiber Producing Industry", Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings, 23, Textile Society of America, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/23/ 
  5. ↑ "Echigo-jofu: Traditional Textile of the Snow Country". International Hospitality and Conference Service Association annex, Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. http://ihcsacafe-en.ihcsa.or.jp/news/echigojofu/. 
  6. ↑ Masaki Yamada; Osamu Sawaji (February 2013), "Gifts of the Snow—Ojiya-chijimi and Echigo-jofu", Highlighting JAPAN (Government of Japan Public Relations Office), https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/201302/201302_04.html 
  7. ↑ Dyeing & weaving – Echigo jofu, ojiya chijimi, Cultural foundation for promoting the national costume of Japan, http://www.kimono.or.jp/dictionary/eng/echigojoufu.html 

Further reading

  • Rinne, Melissa M. (2007), "Preserving Echigo Jofu and Nara Sarashi: Issues in Contemporary Bast Fiber Textile Production", in Hamilton, Roy W.; Milgram, B. Lynne, Material choices: refashioning bast and leaf fibers in Asia and the Pacific, Fowler Museum at UCLA, ISBN 9780974872988, OCLC 191890941  UW Press page

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