#ハンドクラフト

I made nibushiki-juban from my vintage beautiful silk juban by myself.

I bought this juban from Hyotan-ya, which is an antique/vintage kimono store in Osaka (I’m sad that the store is not open right now, hopefully the owner will start his business again soon!), almost 10 years ago… !!

This is actually my first juban, but it is difficult to wear antique kimono because they are a little too small, or the fabric is worn out and if you pull the fabric too hard, it would break off.

Anyway, I didn’t wan’t to ruin it, and had kept it like a treasure for a long time. But now I’m confident enough to wear them and it is actually in a very good condition than I thought.

But the problem was, as usual, it was short. So I decided to make nibushiki-juban out of it.

I always wear nibushiki-juban, because it is easy to wear, easy to shape the emon nicely.

First, cut it in 2 pieces! Be bold and just cut it!!

It’s better to have the edge a little bit longer so you can sew it up.

Like this.

The bottom part. I searched and referred on the Internet and found some nice instructions to make juban.

色のあるくらし ←The blog has a lot of recipe to make kimono stuff!! Very cool ;)

I love anqitue/vintage kimono, but the size had been always an issue, but now juban, I will be able to buy anything with this technique. It is so exiting!!