It’s very useful to wear wool kimono as daily use instead of tsumugi and cotton kimono.
Wool kimono is very warm in winter and has lots of unique and fashionable design.
It’s easy to coordinate with obi and accessories so begginers try to wear.
Also it’s easy to wash.
This time I’ll show you what is wool kimono.
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The features of wool kimono
Wool comes from sheep. It’s cheaper than silk kimono.
Wool is wrinkle free and easy to move.
Popular designs are check, stripes and simple design.
Wool is thick texture and mainly made as unlined kimono.
It can be wear in spring, autumn and winter.
Wool fabrics has rough surface and little prickles your skin.
These days, there is wool-silk fabric.
Silk wool has smooth touch and luxury gloss.
Cotton-wool kimono is warm and comfortable to wear.
There is summer wool kimono which has see through cloth.
Wool fiber is weak so intermingled fabric becomes mainstream.
There are plain ensemble and monk’s working clothes and coats for men.
The History of Wool kimono
Wool kimono started to produce during Meiji period.
It was the same time when people started to wear wool western cloths.
It was easy to make and cheap so wool kimono became mainstream in Showa period.
In those days, people used to take care kimono at home, so usually made as unlined kimono.
Since 50th Showa period, it started to decline.
Now famous kimono brands start to make wool kimono and it’s popular.
The way to wear
Wool kimono is same rank as casual kimono like tsumugi and komon.
Before wearing kimono, you need to wear Nagajuban and it’s better to choice moth or silk textures.
Coordinating with Nagoya obi style is elegant and with Hanhaba style is more casual.
Sometimes it’s better not to choose gold and silver yarns made obi.
In winter,wearing Haori on wool kimono seems so fashionable.
Wool made coat and poncho prevent from static electricity.
The way to distinguish
When you touch the texture, you can tell.
It’s unsmooth and has no gloss.
If you couldn’t tell, we recommend to burn little of texture.
It smells nasty compared to silk and cotton.
In particular,wool and silk shrink while burn, cotton vanish softly and if the texture melt immediately that means it’s a chemical fiber.
The way to care
It’s easy to wash just like a sweater and water prevent from shrinking.
But silk wool is bit hard to wash at home, so it’s better to cleaning specialty store.
Important thing is dehumidify.
Summary
Now, wool kimono attract great deal of attention.
So why don’t you enjoy wool kimono in your way!