Hand-colored photo of a young woman drying sections of kimono or yukata on flat boards to avoid wrin
Hand-colored photo of a young woman drying sections of kimono or yukata on flat boards to avoid wrinkling. The traditional method of washing a kimono would be to un-seam the entire garment, hand-wash the sections, and then dry by the method we see here, and lastly resew the strips back together to reform the garment. The Japanese were - and to an extent still are - a very patient people -- source link
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