Yuzen Leather Patternweight
Aligned flowers, the motif of Cohana, were adopted as the design on this leather patternweight. The hand-sized bag is made from calf leather, and small iron grains fill the inside.
The artisan Mr Takeguchi adapted traditional Kyo-Yuzen kimono-dyeing techniques to leather, resulting in an exquisite, three-dimensional design.
Kyo-Yuzen is a resist dying technique where a paste made from glutinous rice flour is stenciled onto a material - traditionally silk but in this case calf-leather - to act as a barrier for the dye. Once the paste is cleaned off, this leaves the a pleasant, lightly textured design. In his small Okasa workshop he prints all his own leather using this centuries-old technique.
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