Making of Kiami

1

Partially buried Yakusugi overgrown with moss and vegetation

苔に覆われ草木の生い茂った土埋木です。
2

Buried tree chopped and extracted.

土埋木を切り出して搬出します。
3

Tree processed into blocks of lumber.

木材のブロックに加工されます。
4

Blocks sliced under 0.1mm thick, processed, and connected into a single sheet.

木材を0.1mm以下に薄くスライスし、特殊な裏加工を施して、丁寧につなぎ合わせてシート状にします。
5

Sheets cut and vertically fed into a loom.

シートを裁断して織り機に縦糸をセットします。
6

Sheets woven together one strand at a time.

編み機に横糸を通して一本ずつ編んでいきます。
7

Finished Kiami sheet. Sheets with splinters, holes, or unbalanced are cut out.The useable areas are used for smaller products.

木編み生地の完成です。

Source: Yakusugi Nature Museum

Creating products from Kiami

Kiami sheets are created by mother nature and an unimaginable length of time.

In hopes to have our customers treasure Kiami products, our highly-skilled craftsmen creates each product by hand.

Leather products are hand-sown with a high thread count and the edges are polished until they are smooth as silk.

Our craftsmen makes sure that each thread is sown with the utmost care.