Saionji's screamin' orange kuge hitatare

[Nagamochi]

Hey Big Sis, just picked up two sweet pieces of fabric today. Here's my plans and questions:

Fabric #1)
A gorgeous, lustrous medium-soft-yellow habotai, or damn close to habotai.

Looking to turn it into either two uchigi, or an uchigi and mo (there's a lot of it, A LOT). Were mo ever another color besides white? On my budget, it would be great to kill two barbarians with one stone from this fabric.

Fabric #2)
A dull sheen, school house red with a fine woven line and diamond mesh pattern.

Thinking of using this for a kouichgi, which means stenciling. Never mind that I'll be stenciling on a part-mesh, I'm curious if there's extant examples, or at least known examples, of such a pattern-on-woven-pattern?

Ja ne
Nagamochi

[Saionji Shonagon]

Were mo ever another color besides white?

Not to my knowledge, sorry.

Thinking of using this for a kouichgi, which means stenciling. Never mind that I'll be stenciling on a part-mesh, I'm curious if there's extant examples, or at least known examples, of such a pattern-on-woven-pattern?

"Figured" silks were patterned.
www.takata-courtrobe.co.jp/en1.htm Scroll down and look at the patterned fabrics midway down the page.

Saionji

[Nagamochi]

Scroll down and look at the patterned fabrics midway down the page.

Oooooo.... Dank you.

*Grins like giddy five year-old and does little happy dance, which no one sees hidden under all those layers*

[Saionji Shonagon]

*Grins like giddy five year-old and does little happy dance, which no one sees hidden under all those layers*

Wanna bet? No one can conceal the Funky Chicken.

S.

[Inoue Tsukiko]

Wanna bet? No one can conceal the Funky Chicken.

Except, perhaps, a chicken. I had a pet rooster as a child. He was the sweetest thing, until he forgot he had the spurs Just loved to have his comb rubbed. He made the rooster equivalent to a purr.

Very nice hitatare, and the perfect color too. So jealous. Just inspired to make something decent for myself now. Will have the time now that I'm laid up with a recovering knee.