Warping, Nishijin-ori

Photo by Nakayama Seikei Ten2015

Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

　The setting up of the warp involves measuring out the lengths of all the warps, their number being based on their density per centimeter times the width of the fabric, and then winding them onto a cylindrical warp beam (chikiri).

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Title: Warping, Nishijin-ori
Creator: Photo by Nakayama Seikei Ten
Date Created: 2015
Rights: Photo © Nakayama Seikei Ten

Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

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