Our most sincere thanks to all who sent us messages, it was deeply appreciated.
We’re back in the office today and will resume shipping orders tomorrow, Aug 24. We’ll notify you individually if you placed an order while we were away. Once orders are all shipped and we’re caught up on correspondence, Dana will resume adding fabrics to the web site. We’ll let you know here, to opt-in members and via Facebook.
Again, thanks for the messages, they were a comfort.
Dana & Yoko
We lost Dana’s father on August 16, 2010: Obituary, Kenneth R. Lewis.
We appreciate and are deeply touched by all the emails we’ve received during this most difficult time from Facebook Fans, Customers, Associates and friends. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Dana & Yoko.
We’ll resume business on Monday, August 23rd.
Due to a death in the family we are away, off-line and unavailable until August 19th, possibly later. We will not be accessing emails nor business communications/orders until we return late this week. We’ll return calls, respond to emails/orders in order they’re received. Sorry for any inconvenience. Dana & Yoko Lewis
Dana is staring at piles of new (to us,vintage) fabrics Yoko has just given him to post to site…Came across a great bundle of deadstock kasuri (ikat) bolts and rolls, all great shape from 60′s & earlier; Also: some gorgeous silks, tsumugi cotton, plenty of indigo-white cottons, and a few unusual finds as well. So… Since it’s so hot out, I’m locking Dana in the basement (it’s cooler there) [haha 
] so he can focus on updating the fabric section of the site. Will advise via this blog, Facebook & Twitter accts when we do that. Of course, opt-in members list get first notice as well.
Oh, still some fabrics left at 50% off in page one of a fabrics section.
Also, reminder our next venue is Chantilly, VA, Sept30-Oct2 and then Anime Festival (NY), combined with NY Comicon Oct 8-10, 2010.
We’ve ended up extending our time off after doing Otakon in Baltimore. Had a great show — even had fun with an emergency evacuation of the Baltimore Convention Center due to causes unknown on Saturday (rumors abounded, but probably was just a prank IMO). No casualties, no panic, just a flood of Otaku (most in costume) flooding the streets around the convention center.
Found the following videos & stories about the evacuation:
YouTube videos and Kotaku.com article, w/ link to AnimeNetwork info.
Thanks to so many of you who came back to see us again, and to those web site opt-in members & Facebook Fans who stopped by to see us too — we love that aspect of doing shows!
Next venue is September 30- Oct 2, 2010 in Chantilly,Virginia,( sewingexpo.com ). More details on that later. We do have links to the fall venues earlier in the blog, mid-late July.
OFFICE HOURS/SHIPPING SCHEDULE:
We needed a bit more time to recuperate from the show so only today began processing orders etc. Shipments resume tomorrow(Thur.Aug4th).
Bunches of fabrics still to be posted, including a good number of old deadstock kasuri (ikats). Still have fabric pieces page 1 on sale (50% off).
1. Just an FYI: All of those who were on the wait list for hakama have had their orders filled and we still have some “H” Packages in stock. As we explain on the details page, these tend to go quickly, fyi.
2. Reminder to our Anime & Otaku fans we’ll be in Baltimore at Otakon again this year. Print this page out if you come and we’ll give you a web discount. Hope to see some of you there — in full costume we presume :} .
We have to make room for all the fabrics we’ve recently acquired so are again having a clearance sale of our vintage kimono fabrics (pieces/panels). We put all the ones we want to offer on sale onto page 1 of the fabrics section (page 1 of 4). We’re offering 50% off with a minimum order total of $15.00 merchandise. If you’re interested please see the sale page for full details.
Our upcoming in-person venues:
1. Otakon 2010 held at the Baltimore Convention Center, July 30 to August 1, 2010. Details here and on Facebook the week before the convention.
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We’ve completely updated the fabric section (by piece), and will continue to add more over the next few days. To see, please start HERE.
Reminder that we actively use our Facebook page, located here.
Next venue: Baltimore, Otakon. Details here (and Facebook) soon.
Just a quick note that Dana has (at last) put up more fabric pieces today; more coming tomorrow. Most of them are deadstock silks but some interesting nagajuban (under-kimono) red silks, wool and meisen also; to see them click HERE. Plenty of cottons are next.
