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Irosashi

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NHK Educational
Tokyo, Japan

Irosashi (color infilling) is the work of hand-painting dyes into the design areas created by the paste outlines.
The paste serves as a sort of seawall that prevents colors from seeping out of their boundaries and mixing with adjacent colors.

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  • Title: Irosashi
  • Original Source: Tabata the art of dyeing laboratory
  • Photographer: Tadayuki Minamoto
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