"To the site of photoengraving / Seimi Yamamoto"

Textile name "Trace"
This pattern is characterized by a gentle blurring, which gives the print a different feel to other Textile.
Up and Down are some people who feel this way.

There are other Companions,
"Flower Garden""Snowing""Gion festival"... etc.

Up ...
These Textile are a little different.
"Photolithography (Shashin Sasebo)"
Among the Hand-printed, we use a special method for dyeing.

Dyeing is done by Yahata Dyeing in Kyoto · Kujyo.
Founding It is a historic dyeing factory in 1939.President Yamaguchi welcomed you.

"Chrysanthemum"I am dyeing Yamashita, a craftsman.

I am working on dyeing the third color just.
"Chrysanthemum" is dyed by the Hand-printed
(1) Red (2) Fuji color (3) Pink (4) Four plates made separately for plate making with blue purple, and are dyed one by one color by craftsman's hands.

Change, to the site of photolithography. "Palette"I showed you where to dye.
The first plate and yellow dye are on standby, craftsman scratches one ...
When I remove the version ,,,

Palette filled only with beautiful yellow!
Next, blue dye was Set in the second plate,
When Layering over yellow...
What is that!
Yellow and blue overlapped on the fabric, a yellow - green - blue gradation emerged.
I am enchanted by a beautiful sight.

Continued 3rd version and the appearance of red dye.
The number of colors has increased rapidly, it looks like magic.

Finally dyed black in the fourth plate,
Your beautiful Palette is now complete.

And, with the rush and running we introduced the photos of the process,
Photolithography is a dyeing method that expresses with the multiplication of four colors of red, blue, yellow and black.
↑The four dye colors used in the “Palette”

For example, if you try to express a "Palette" using normal Hand-printed
Because the number of colors is too large, we need at least 15 sheets of plates.
However, to achieve multicolor representation using only the 4th edition, 4 colors, which was made by exquisitely adjusting the dyeing density.
That is "photolithography".

In order to achieve beautiful dyeing using photoengraving, the next color must be Layering on top of the previous one before the dye paste dries.
It was told that there are various parts to struggle, such as the necessity of delicate adjustment of glue hardness.

Finally, we have Mr. Sanada, the craftsman who dyed Palette this time.
How! This road seems to be over 50 years old.
Scenery of craftsmen ... It is too cool! !

Thank you very much in the future.



"Photolithography" which craftsmen skill which multiplied four colors shines.
I hope you enjoyed the strange color.

(Sei Yamamoto)