石徹白洋品店 / Itoshiro Yohinten

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石徹白洋品店 / Itoshiro Yohinten Sustainability Actions

Opened boutique in Itoshiro

As envisioned, Kaori started designing clothes and opened a small boutique called Itoshiro Yohinten (yohinten is an old-fashioned word meaning a small boutique) in the spring of 2012.

Used organic, natural materials

After years of struggling with a skin allergy, she decided to only use organic, natural materials for her clothes.

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Uses low-waste cutting

Tatsuke is a variation of samurai and ninja pants that was simplified for common people's daily use. Traditional kimono textiles in Japan had always been made 36 - 39 cm wide (14 - 14.5"). There was probably no loom existing to make wider fabric, so to make a pair of flexible, easy-to-move-in pants with such narrow fabric, tatsuke have a square piece of fabric at the back crotch. In fact, all the pieces are rectangular, and they don't waste a single inch of fabric.

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Uses leftover fabric

Since then, Itoshiro Yohinten wastes little fabric. The scraps are all in rectangular shapes, so they use the leftover for patchwork and making small bags.

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Naturally dyes textiles

At the same time, she decided to naturally-dye the textiles she uses with locally-available plant materials.

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Uses up-cycled fabrics

Some fabrics are up-cycled from factory waste, and others are hand-woven by local textile artists.

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Runs workshops in Itoshiro

Workshop in Itoshiro Let's learn a craft ... 石徹白でのWS服作りや染めのワークショップ。春・夏の石徹白でものづくりを満喫。

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Opened gallery and main store

本店について岐阜・石徹白の本店とギャラリーをオープンしております。ぜひご来訪ください。

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