This time I am going to introduce weaving - Sakiori, which is commonly called “TAKIORI” in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture.
Sakiori, rag weaving, is a textile weaved by using warp yarns such as cotton and linen and weft yarns which were torn unnecessary yarns into narrow strips.
That is a traditional technique for recycling, which is woven by using worn-out kimono and yukata.
“TAKIORI” was created in order to apply this traditional technique into modern weaving machines, and then recycle waste fabrics.
First, in order to make a long yarn, the fabric is cut on the bias into tapes with a machine, and then ties the tapes together to make a long yarn.
And preventing from using twisted yarns, each tape yarn will be set up on the weaving machine carefully.
It is said that TAKIORI was named because such yarns on the machine looked like a waterfall, which is called “TAKI” in Japanese.
In general, Sakiori, rag weaving makes textiles by using tape yarns as horizontal weft yarns, but the biggest feature of TAKIORI is that it uses tape yarns as warp yarns, not weft yarns.
There is no other such beautiful tape yarns lined up in the vertical direction.
TAKIORI also has great advantages because it is relatively lighter and be able to reduce the cost. For example, in the case of using weft yarns of a general rag weaving – Sakiori, about 150m textiles will be cut into a 50m tape to use them as a yarn, but since TAKIORI is used for warp yarns, only 60-70m textiles will be used.