Tenugui (Fixed-layout‪)‬

Japanese hand towels now found for convenient use in the kitchen, living room and even outdoors are also smart and chic looking in fashion. They have long been considered as a very typical tool used in ordinary Japanese lives. Looking into the creative and diverse usage of tenugui by the Japanese, it also highlights the meanings of the beautiful patterns and traditional dyeing techniques to produce the most beautifully dyed Japanese hand towels. This particular book may provide you with some simple tips on how to live an eco-friendly life.


About this series

The most appreciated characteristics of Japanese slow craft are its fineness and detailed accuracy. How and why are these features created? The series pick-up traditional Japanese items such as "washi" (Japanese paper), "shoyu" (Japanese soy sauce) or "tenugui" (Japanese hand towels) and attempt to precisely illustrate in-depth, on each of these traditional industries into one book. It describes and features the traditional skills and methods passed on from the past generation to the present, exploring the spirit of such craftsmen creating those products. In addition, the encircling atmosphere which furthermore grooms the presence and value of such traditional items is depicted from diverse angles. Also, the features of "high quality" are visualized through numerous photographs. Despite the rapid and growing global transition from hand to digital made items, this e-pub series aim to transmit the significant presence of slow craft to all those worldwide loving hand-made crafts created by hands of skillful Japanese craftsmen.