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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:45 pm
Zarathustral Lady Mira of Azure Sky You can buy patterns at fabric stores 3nodding My mother is a sewer she got a kimono pattern to make me one. She did it to0 except she messed up the sleeves and it hangs all wrong so she needs must do it again (or maybe Iwill do it this time). My mom bought patterns and fabric for a furisode and a regular, for me and my sister, but she hasn't gotten around to it yet.
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:34 pm
mom has a small totoural on how to make kimono and the juban (kimono underwair .. basicly) all you have to do is find the measurments of the kimono you want to make =http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/ani_cat_candy and yukata, furisode, tomosode, whatever, they're all made the same way and the only differance between them is the measurments, colour and pattern/design.. and some are lined.. but that's it really
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:25 pm
You know a lot of people make their own yukata, since you don't need silk, and they are meant to be light weight for summer. I think you can also have a lot more fun with yukata, accessorizing and color co-ordinating and all.
In the summer lots of fun yukata books come out. Check your local Japanese bookstore. Some of them even have patterns to make your own in the back.
The only thing is I don't know if you can make your own obi. Even yukata obi can get expensive. So I guess you're on your own in that area. sad
If anyone is ever in Japan during the summer, check out Uniqlo for a ready-to-go cheap yukata! Uniqlo is like the Old Navy of Japan, prices are pretty much the same too. You get everything in the set (yukata, obi, matching bag) save for the geta, but you can also buy them in store.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:15 pm
mom has made obi before.. it's pretty easy.. well, the hanaba obi (yukata obi).. I'm sure you can make any other obi this way too
just find the dementions of the obi and cut the material to thoes dementions (usually you have to connect two long strips together.. if the seam is in the center, it won't show)
Hanaba obi is usually 420cm Long X 17cm Wide (though if you're useing the same material for both sides, cut it to 34cm Wide ---mom made a double-sided obi -one side green, the other yellow)
make a long tube.. one end left open.. and pull it right-side-out (when it comes off the sewing machine, it is inside-out... hard to explain if you don't know much about sewing)
Iron it out and sew the last end shut (roll the raw edges inward THEN sew)
You don't need to starch it. It works out fine without it, but that's totally up to you.
VERY simple biggrin
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:17 pm
I make kimono and yukata all the time. There are patterns available in fabric stores from companies like Butterick, but if you want a more authentic kimono you should probably do some research and check out http://www.folkwear.com.Also, you might be able to find simple instructions online and not even have to buy a pattern at all. Kimono actually aren't extremely difficult to make until you have to make the obi.
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Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:20 pm
as mentioned above, Butterick makes a Kimono pattern.. its not that hard to find.. probably in any shop that carries patterns..i used that particuliar pattern 3 times and i was generally happy with the results.. it takes alot of fabric for that one because the sleeves are extremely long..
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:32 am
No i dont! Sadly. Id love to make a pretty gothloli styled one maybe..or like visual kei style xD; ahem
Maybe i should ask my mom to help me xDD
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 4:17 pm
yes I want a kimono for my avi and I want to make one for fun. In real life I have a kimono biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 7:28 am
Do a lot of people in japan still wear them in every day wear or are more for events
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:50 pm
how! i wish you good luck!
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:09 pm
I would say the easiest way to go, is to buy a kimono pattern. It not only gives you he pattern, but it has instructions on how to put it together. A little hard to follow sometimes, but you get the hang of it as you go.
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Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:27 am
the patterns I've found are very inaccurate. the closest is the pattern by Butterick.. mom just fixed the tutorals though on her website so there's one for a kimono/yukata and annother for an obi.. see my previous posts for the URL.. I'm tired of typeing this morning gonk
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:12 pm
Vaultingjungle Do a lot of people in japan still wear them in every day wear or are more for events nah, they don't really wear them alot in japan, more over, for formal ocasions, or if they happen to be IGo title holders, they generally tend to wear less formal stuff, but still wear the hakama with the gi and the under-gi and the over-gi. (See Hikaru no go's Touya Meijin for an example for the last version) or if They happen to be some of the remaining Geisha, you'd see them all the time, especially in Kyoto.
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:42 pm
I wish I knew how to make a kimono. I found a pattern at Wal-mart. Hopefully you'll be able to make one well. 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:56 am
I sewed my own kimono! It was sooooooooo much work but in the end it was worth it. I got a pattern from a store like JoAnn Fabrics. It even had the pattern for the obi. If you don't really have any sewing experience it would probably be impossible to make XDD my mom had to help me so much with it.
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