I love this swirly joined kasuri pattern!

The Kasuri is nicely made and the design is striking.

It’s a nice soft cotton too. The piece is from a deconstructed cotton kimono I discovered in my hunt through the second hand shops in Tokyo.

The Kasuri weaving of the original fabrics is technically complex as the patterns are determined in advance and the skeins of threads space dyed for both warp and weft. The threads would have been dipped 30 times in Japanese indigo.

I’ve hand stitched a few little mends with a cute small grid kasuri where there were some holes in the piece and hand rolled the ends.

This is not a long scarf but works really well loose or as a wraparound with the ends tucked into a jacket or shirt.

This is a beautiful, one of a kind scarf that would make a perfect gift for either a man or a woman.