So I am quite busy this week due to relaunching the shop in the coming weeks. This time, we have what started as something of a mix of time restraint, dodging my over organized responsibilities and curiosity. Thus we have this weeks blogpost 2 days before its deadline and a very brief recounting of my googling about novel fabric wafuku. Corduroy as a fabric originates from and English duroy cloth, made of conjoined cords/wales from pile yarn. The back can be a plain/twill weave and is woven using one warp and two weft threads which create the pile effect of corduroy I think.
Corduroy! Oh great Corduroy, you have revealed your mysteries to us! You actually apparently exist![1] Whilst it seems that this may purely have been a fad of the 1970s love of corduroy perhaps?[2] Either way a very interesting fabric choice, becuase you can obviously make such wonderful graduating shades with the pile in the fabric. Something to consider if I ever find the time to make another Kimono. There also seems to be some workmen's Hanten made from corduroy, which makes sense becuase of how durable a fabric it is, but I cannot find much evidence nor know of anymore examples than 2 found online so a theoretical one for now. But corduroy Kimono exist! Huzzah!
Bibliography
[1] https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1465725214/vintage-chrysanthemum-pattern-corduroy?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=corduroy+kimono&ref=sr_gallery-1-3&sts=1&organic_search_click=1
[2] https://www.gloverall.com/blogs/journal/history-of-corduroy#:~:text=Corduroy%20reached%20peak%20popularity%20in,Pablo%20Picasso%20and%20Wes%20Anderson.
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