(523) Lobby exhibition of Iyo-gasuri

Iyo-kasuri exhibition at a lobby of Iyo Bank Habu-branch

Traditional Craft Iyo-kasuri
Lobby Exhibition, Feb. 14, 2020

KAGIYA Kana is the founder of Iyo-kasuri, who was born here, Imazu.
(1) Loom
(2) Spinning wheel
(3) Gin
are displayed here.
Please take a look at the exhibits!

Loom: machine for weaving

Natural fibers. I'm "Cotton" Cotton flower.
Why don't you bring up a fantasy of beauty for 100 days?
Do you know the three whites of Sanuki? Salt, sugar and me "cotton", these three special products are called "Three Whites". I, "Cotton", have been produced in Toyohamad-cho to make clothes and futon for a hundred and some decades yeras. Cotton town, Thoyohama in Kan'onji city.

Various kinds of cotton: red, brown, green and white ones.

綿繰（わたく）り機　Cotton Gin
  On the wooden machine, date is hand-written in black ink, reading "Taisho 14, A.D., 1925"

  After removing the dust of the harvested cotton, cotton gin is used to remove the seeds. A cotton gin is a machine to separate seeds and cotton. Two rollers are rotated by a handle to press cotton between them. Cotton's seeds cannot go through between them, and fall in front to them.

Cotton had carders 
コットン用のハンドカーダー（毛羽立て機）
A pair of cards is used to brush the cotton between them until the fibers are more or less aligned in the same direction.

糸紡ぎ車 Spinning wheel
A spinning wheel is a device  for spinning thread from fibers.

糸紡ぎ Spinning
She formed thread from cotton by drawing and twisting in front of me.
Amazing!

Dyed cotton threads, cotton fiber, kasuri cloths

Cotton fibers, Kasuri cloths
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