{"id":1041,"date":"2024-02-20T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nerding.at\/indigo_hyphae\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2024-02-26T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:39:18","slug":"bingatazome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerding.at\/indigo_hyphae\/bingatazome\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingatazome\/ Ishigaki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In 2024 February, I had a chance to stay in Ishigaki Island, Japan and took a Bingatazome 3 days workshop from Akira Takashina at the Rampu Koubou<\/a>. Bingatazome<\/a> is a traditional fabric pattern dye technique from Okinawa region. Bingata also uses Kata stencil to place resist on a fabric, then color the remaining pattern with mineral based color with characteristic gradation color. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Takashina also glows and dyes with Indigo, but as it was in the winter season, she has already finished the indigo crops from the last year and indigo workshop was not available unfortunately. My motivation to take this workshop was of course to experience the Bingata, but particularly to see the proper Kata stencil making process and compare with our DIY method we developed for the Indigo Hyphae project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The kata stencil is made with Yo-katagami N<\/a>. It is really hard to tell what exactly it is. The base is some kind of paper, but coated on both side. It is water resistant so it can be wet and washed many times without getting damaged or deformed. It has sides. The shiny side is the back side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was given the “workshop pattern” of plum blossoms. The pattern was copied first to tracing paper, then copied onto the Yo-katagami by using carbon paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then add “bridges” or “support” for cutting with a red marker pen. This is like the support material for 3D printing. It helps to keep the pattern to “float in the air”, meaning to leave the shape that is not attached to the frame. The support material will be taken out at the end of the stencil making and do not play a role in the pattern itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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