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Yūzen-dyed summer kimono with crickets, grasshoppers, cages, and pampas grass

Yūzen Dyeing

Yūzen is a family of pictorial paste-resist dyeing methods used especially for Japanese kimono, combining fine outlines with separately applied colours.

Shibori-dyed kosode fragments with grapevine and fence patterns

Shibori

Shibori is a family of Japanese resist-dyeing techniques that shape, bind, stitch, fold, or compress cloth before it is dyed.

Woodblock print of a Japanese woman seated at a hand loom

Japanese Textile Arts

Japanese textile arts encompass regional traditions of fibre preparation, weaving, resist dyeing, painting, embroidery, quilting, and the making of clothing and interiors.