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Washing Echigo Jōfu Cloth with the Feet before Snow Bleaching
Kyoto Women's University, Lifestyle Design Laboratory
Kyōto-shi, Japan
After the completed bolt of Echigo jōfu is taken off the loom, it is washed with the feet in a wooden boat-shaped basin. This process helps to clean and soften the textile, removing the starch (nori) applied to the threads before and sometimes during weaving. After this cleaning, the cloth will be bleached on the snow.
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- Title: Washing Echigo Jōfu Cloth with the Feet before Snow Bleaching
- Subject Keywords: Echigo Jōfu
- Type: Textile, Kimono
- Rights: Courtesy of Koto Masao and Echigo Jōfu and Ojiya Chijimi Technical Preservation Association, Minamiuonuma.
- Medium: Handwoven
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