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habu
"habu" came
from the name of a "very..." poisonous snake, which
is unique to southern islands of Japan, Okinawa. Ever since I
begun weaving, I have been in love with the textiles in Okinawa.
I wanted to have a name related to those islands."Ha"
means "wave." "Bu" means "fabric."
We chose a different charachter for "ha" for our name,
which means "no. 8." Because of its bottom wide shape,
this number is believed to bring a life, which will slowly, but
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textiles
Habu is a studio and
showrool/gallery for simple natural fabrics. Most fabrics are
handwoven, hand-dyed or hand-tied. Yarns are most often hand-dyed
with natural dyes such as indigo, madder, logwood, and fustic.
Some are one-of-a-kinds. rarely duplicated, designed for unique
garments, home accessories, upholstery, drapery or created to
be appreciated aesthetically as an example of superb crafsmanship
"as what they are." Please visit our textile showroom for more. |
yarns
Habu carries unusal
and difficult to find fine yarns from Japan and Asia for weavers,
knitters, basnket makers, stitchers, and artists. Naturally gold
colored silk, raw and degummed bombyx silk as fine as 42 denier
and up, hand reeled raw and degummed Akagi silks, extra fine
silk, wool, cotton or wool/cashmere crepe, hand-tied ramie banana
"basho", bamboo, silk & wool stainless steel, paper,
hemp bark, etc. are only a few of over 300 selections we have.
We offer some special equipment and also "rodin" silk
degumming powder. There is a yarn sample set available. For more,
please visit our shop in New York City or go to yarn section. We also participate in many trade shows &
conferences as a vendor. Please visit event
page. |
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samazama
"samazama"
means "all sorts of anything and everything" in Japanese.
Here - we mean "samazama" in Japanese contemporary
and traditioal textiles. This page is where we would like to
introduce you to a selection of unusual textiles and yarns in
Japan. There is a concern that many of those are disappearing,
and that unfortunately it will be impossible to revive them once
they are gone. We would like to bring you the most recent information
about them. Please visit samazama. (Sorry! underconstruction still...) |
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