News Release, July 21, 2008:
Fowler Museum at UCLA receives donation of Japanese Textiles from Dr. Jeffrey Krause:
We first ‘met’ Jeff when he purchased some of our egasuri pieces a couple years ago. He shared with us his wonderful website and so we have featured it on our site for some time. We honor Jeff for his work in showcasing and preserving the special type of kasuri called ‘egasuri’ on his site and now through his magnanimous gift to the UCLA Fowler Museum. Our hats are off to Jeff! Read more about it below…
fibre2fashion.com made this announcement today (July 21, 2008, USA):
The Fowler Museum at UCLA has been given an important collection of Japanese textiles from Dr. Jeffrey Krauss, of Potomac, Md. The new collection nearly doubles the size of the museum’s existing holdings of Japanese textiles, making the Fowler an important destination for scholars of Japan’s textile arts.The collection consists of 201 examples of e-gasuri (pictures made with the kasuri technique) dating from the early 19th to the mid-20th century. Most are pieces of fabric intended for futon covers, but the collection also includes kimono, bôzugappa (capes), maekake (aprons), yogi (kimono-shaped bed coverlets) and tan (rolled bolts of cloth)…Read full article (more…)
As we announced in 2007 we have decided to narrow our focus and offer only Japanese vintage, antique and specialty fabrics, especially our bulk vintage kimono packages. As part of this transition we decided to discontinue carrying the nicer ceremonial kimono (uchikake,furisode) such as we’ve been carrying on our site since 1998.
We recently sold an yaegasane uchikake from our personal collection to a member, #4543:
Sold Uchikake, wedding kimono textile art from Yoko Trading
Because we’ve had a number of requests, we now will be offering our final uchikake (wedding kimono) from our personal collection for sale on our website. While it is not yet posted in the site catalog it can be seen (and ordered) at the following page in advance of the site sale:
http://yokodana.com/catalog101/4544/
Click image to see pictures and text details (4544 Iro-Uchikake)
As always, you can post comments via the blog, or, email us.
Thank you, Yoko Lewis
If you’ve tried to use our order form in the last day or so if it didn’t work or acted strangely it’s because Dana has been working on it. He now has another secure form for submitting orders in place at the same URL:
https://www.yokodana.com/order/ (remember, for a page to be truly secure the address must have the letter s after the http and before the colon. Without that in your browser address, the page is NOT secure.
We’ll post here once we finish the upgrade (which may be a few days).
We will be away — and OFF LINE — starting sometime on Friday, July 18th. We’ll return Monday morning, July 21st. A few things will happen as a result of our absence:
- Orders received after 5:00PM on Thursday, July 17th will not be confirmed or processed until beginning July 21st.
- We will not be seeing (and therefore of course not responding :} ) to email or site messages, including secure orders received during that time. The secure server issues an automated letter with full info upon completion of an order placed using our order form https://www.yokodana.com/order . Our actual confirmation of availability of your ordered item(s) will resume 7/21.
- If you order after today (July 14) our processing time for your order may be longer than usual. We’ll notify you individually.
We thank you for your understanding. And, Dana hopes to get caught up on all those kasuri pieces (and so much more) planned for the coming site update. Details will be sent to opt-in members once the update is complete (or at least well underway). mata… Yoko
In the course of looking around at blogs etc. for all things Japanese, especially those pertaining to vintage Japanese kimono etc., (which we do on a regular basis), we came across some gorgeous cards made using kimono themes. For us the feel of the way these particular cards were done had more of a simpler *wabi-sabi” feel and simplicity to it than other similar cards we’ve seen. (*Note: wabi-sabi is a Japanese idiom and has no direct translation. For a nice summary with references please refer to the on-line encylopedia Wikipedia by clicking HERE). To see more pictures and learn more about Mona please visit our site gallery page HERE.
Sorry to say, but something has come up and we will not be able to be at the festival in Philadelphia tomorrow. We apologize for such a late notice but we simply cannot make it. The day will still be full of many Japanese cultural events, food and various things, including for children. Our other venues will be posted on our Google Calendar and blog as we confirm them.
We came across this lovely on-line gallery put together by a Pennsylvania Artist/Art Teacher, Bethany Hissong. We loved so many of these kokeshi and the various ways that the kokeshi & kokeshi idea were used creatively. To see many many more pictures like the one above you can visit Red Yarn’s blog by clicking next link below. Enjoy!
Kokeshi Gallery Show
By Bethany Hissong(Bethany Hissong)
“Caroline in a Kimono” by Caroline Hissong, age 11. Red Yarn. “Me”. By Bethany Hissong. Red Yarn. Click Here to See Gallery Show …
Blogspot Blog:
Red Yarn
<http://bethanyjanehissong.blogspot.com/
Just a reminder to print out this page if you happen to come to see us at the Festival in Fairmount Park this coming Saturday. Details etc HERE. Hope to see you there! Yoko
Hello Lover, blog praise for Hetty Rose Shoes…Lots of pictures and enthusiasm in this blog post about Hetty’s Shoes which we featured on our site last year (and in our gallery even now). Based on the number of pictures and gushing praise, this blogger must really like these shoes…:} .
By Princess Poochie(Princess Poochie)
At that time Hetty had done her first Kimono collection featuring twelve styles that could be custom made to your specifications from a selection of vintage kimono fabrics. Now Hetty is back with a second collection which has all new …
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Hello, Lover…
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Just wanted to say hi to our new customers in the DC metropolitan area whom we met this past Sunday at the Capital Pride Festival 2008. We were lucky in that the rain fell during the night so the day wasn’t too hot nor humid. We also had a few of our ‘regulars’ who had never been to our in-person venue stop in and meet FTF (face to face). That’s one of the intangible benefits of selling these beautiful vintage kimonos & fabric — we get to meet so many nice people, especially those with a creative bent and a passion for fabrics and their art. It energizes us as we go about all that we do to make these Japanese fabrics and kimono available both in person and to our customers around the world via our web site. Thanks again to all for your support in helping us continue in our 10th year online and nearly 20th year in business. You made it all possible and we appreciate it!
Hope to see some of you again at our next venue in Philadelphia at Shofuso/Japan House in Fairmount Park. Details HERE.
