About cucuri

昔から人々の日常に寄り添ってきた絞りを今も身近に感じてほしい。そんな想いから産地メーカーとデザイナーがタッグを組み誕生したアパレルブランド“くくり”。絞りの中でもヒートセット技法に着眼し、現代のライフスタイルにあったデザインを展開。

May you feel familiar with shibori that has been a close part of the daily lives of Japanese people for hundres of years. Shibori is a traditional Japanese tie-dying art that goes back over 500 years to the beginning of the Edo period. With such thought, an apparel brand was born that is a collaboration between the original manufacturers and designers. Our forcus is on a heat setting technique that was innovated along with traditional shibori techiniques that expands the traditional ideas of design and adopts it into a modern life style.

The Heat Setting Technique

ヒートセット技法とは、1992年の「国際絞り会議」により【Shaped resist dyeing】 −立体的に防染された染め物− という概念により生まれた、"生地の形状記憶技術"です。ここから新しい有松鳴海絞りが生まれ、「染める」ための絞りから「凹凸を付ける」ための絞りに発展。美しさを追求した絞りは、アートとしても世界中に広がっています。

The Arimatsu International Symposium was held in 1992, and this is where the concept called “shape resistant dyeing” was established.  This is the invention of a heat setting technique that uses heat to imprint a shape into the fabric. From that point on, a new type of shibori was born that changes from dyeing shibori to shaping shibori. The ancient artfrom is now spreading it’s beauty across the world.

About Arimatsu Shibori

“絞りの町”有松は江戸時代のはじめ、徳川家康が江戸に幕府を開いてまもない慶長13年（1608年）に、絞り開祖、竹田庄九郎（たけだしょうくろう）らによって誕生しました。 有松絞り400年の歴史は、尾張藩が有松絞りを藩の特産品として保護し、竹田庄九郎を御用商人に取り立てたことからはじまりました。 旅人が故郷への土産にと、きそって絞りの手拭、浴衣などを買い求め、これが街道一の名産品となり、その繁盛ぶりは、北斎や広重の浮世絵に画かれ、名産有松絞りと謳われました。 伝統の絞り技法は100種にも及び、有松・鳴海絞りは日本の絞り生産量のうち、約90%以上も占めています。400年の創意と工夫が国内はもとより、世界でも最高の技術を現代まで受け継がれたゆえんであります。 有松の町並みは昔の繁栄と日本建築の美しさを今に伝える家並みがあり、200年を経過した貴重な文化財です。その景観は、名古屋市の町並み保存指定第一号として、全国町並み保存連盟の発祥地としても知られています。

“The shibori town" Arimatsu was founded by Shokuro Takeda and others in 1608 when Ieyasu Tokugawa opened the shogunate gavernment in Edo at the beginning of the Edo period. Arimatsu lies on the Tokaido or East Sea Road, between Tokyo and Osaka. When Arimatsu was founded, the feudal lords of Japan were required to travel to Tokyo (then known as Edo) each year via the Tokaido to swear their allegiance to the Shogun. Along the route were 53 government-sanctioned stops or “stations” where travellers could rest. Arimatsu was established as the forty-second station. As many travelers bought souvenirs such as shibori towels and shibori yukatas ( summer kimono ) to thier hometown, this place became known throughout Japan for their specialty products. It was depicted in ukiyoe (wood-block prints) by famous artists Hokusai and Hiroshige.   There are 100 kinds of traditional shibori techniques, and Arimatsu-Narumi shibori accounts for about 90% or more of the Japanese shibori production. It is due to the creativity and ingenuity of 400 years of craftsmanship that shibori is now a treasure worldwide. In addition, the townscape of Arimatsu is a valuable cultural asset that has endured for hundreds of years and conveys the prosperity of old times and the beauty of traditional Japanese architecture. Arimatsu is also the first historically recognized district in the Nagoya city area to be preserved for its cultural, historic, and architectual value.