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Description

Origin: Aomori, Japan

Size : 22cm x 4cm

Material : linen embroidered with white cotton thread

Hand-made product of *Kogin embroidery, of Tsugaru

We can put chopsticks or a folding fan of 22cm long.

Note: There is no chopsticks in this product.

*Kogin is one of the techniques of stitching in Tsugaru area, Aomori Prefecture. It is said that this technique is born about 180 years ago in the farm area around Hirosaki City. At that time the clothes of ordinary people were only from hand-woven linen. Moreover, as this linen was very precious, it was usually quilted to wear well. This hand-woven linen was dyed in indigo blue and was quilted or embroidered with white cotton thread. And then the quilted cloth was always made into the peasants smock-frocks because this quilted linen, "kogin", wears best of all the cloths.
Most of girls began to learn how to embroider this "kogin" at the age of five or six. They became masters of "kogin" in fourteen or fifteen and made their efforts to embroider more and more beautiful figures. As the result "kogin" was not only used as smock-frocks but also was considered as their best clothes. 
Recently "kogin", with its long history, became appreciated as the most valuable folk handcraft and applied to various uses.