how to make kudzu cloth　ohoigawakuzufu

Reaping
The sickle is put in foundation and it catches though we became 2?3m from June to August by the new vine of the year. The thing of the vine that the downy hair grows on green and the surface is good in [nono] [futo] like woman's little finger. The thing of the vine postponed straight requesting Hyuga from shade is preferable. The vine twines round the tree, and the thing that has branched too much is not good. We criticize the leaf previously toward from the foundation of the vine, and the stalk is left. We bind bringing the foundation of the gathered ivy together, make the bunch a circle like the lease roundly, and bind. 

2.　boil

You should not put time from the collection to boiling [ukazura] so much. When it is not possible to boil soon, [kazurataba] is soaked to water. The purpose of this is to prevent sunlight and dryness. The eighth part is put, and water is boiled to the boiler of the size that [kazurataba] enters enough. [Kazurataba] is put and it boils for about 20 minutes while sometimes returning the top and bottom. The vine presents a smell that boils green soybeans and vivid green on the way. Next, it gives from the boiler this time, and it applies it to water at once because it begins to yellow. 

3.　fermentation

It paves in the river beach cutting the grass of which the coloring matter such as Japanese pampas grasses doesn't go out easily and [kazurataba] is displayed. Surroundings on [kazurataba] are thick covered with the leaf etc. of the Japanese pampas grass. In addition, it covers with [**], and the weight is done by the stone. ｡It causes it from the room confirming the surface of the vine is done on 4?5 day, puts the hand, and is clammy and peels off easily. 
You may confirm the fermentation situation every day. When fermentation is good, it is not very stinky. 

The epidermal of the vine that ferments by the flow of the river is washed and it drops. It washes enough so that black spots should not remain. [Kazurataba] is undone, it has the place of about 30cm from the root by one hand, former hull is peeled off by the other hand, and bast is washed well. It ..".. ..extending.. is dropped well between bast and the wood part if there is". The quality of ..remainder.. [ruto] [kazuraito] is deteriorated. 
5.Bag pulling out
The origin is done to the line toward under picking and bast parts from [kazurahabiko] very much with the wood part. The wood part is pulled out by one hand while holding bast by one hand. Bast remains in the hand like the bagworm. It picks bast ahead, and it is an enlargement, a thumb, a little finger, and ..plover.. ..hand.. [nanisuru]. This time. It mixes the vine neither the origin ahead. 
6.[Karamushiarai]
The hand shakes from the sink and the head to the Nao solution [ite] water toward the tail and it washes while rinsing it. [Nanishi] and ..hand.. bast beautifully note from the becoming it part and some Articles also note no crack. 
7.Dryness of ramie
The vine ramie is expanded and dried on the stone river beach. They are made to do toward at the dryish time on the tip of the origin, to prevent the [goite] cotton crepe, to shake the ramie and the ramie well, and to part. 

8.Vine [tsuguri]



[Kazurakaramushi] is split into width 1?2mm and the part on the tip of is connected to the origin mutually by the machine knot. The purpose of this is to give the point and directionality from the root to one [kazuraito] without fail. When connecting it, it does while wetting the edge of the string with saliva. The extra that went out of the edge at the choke end is cut with scissors. The connected string piles up the circle on newspaper etc. being able to put it thus. At this time, it puts it out a little it is possible to put like understanding nether [itobata] (origin) most. It quietly turns inside out, and it moves it on newspaper etc. being able to put it of another when getting injured in the ramie full. A soybean and a small stone, etc. are put, and the string is prevented from twining. The character of eight is rolled in round chopsticks stick where this [kazuraito] is called [tsuguri] stick thus. It is ended to stop even if becoming the size of a young cucumber, and to stop sideways and to roll three places. 

9.Weaving



Most uses the gross cloth and the passing string uses silk, hemp, and cotton, etc. according to plain weave [ride] and the usage. The feature in the shuttle is to do Funagata in which it locates there by the one only for the vine. It puts it on this shuttle, and it applies to water and squeezing [tatsuguri] is put on the [irete] machine hard. Ton ton and the technology that beats are required only though it knocks down to diagonal [osaha], and it draws it lightly. Because [kazuraito] dislikes intense operation, it doesn't hang to power, and it is woven of the hand loom for a long time. Work to take the feretory and getting damp taking beard from the machine is done when finishing weaving. Afterwards, [kinutauchi] is put out and the giving kneading and shining are put out.。

Details of how to make the gross cloth introduces here have been opened to the public in the workshop. 
It participates in the workshop done two times every year and it clicks in detail here. 

It is thought that time when the amount and the quality are good is July though the time that the vine vine gathers is the beginning of August from the late-May. However, it is a thing limited in this part of the country. If the vine is chosen recently at the time of think that the collection time is naturally different if the place is different, the thing that can be gathered until the beginning of September has been understood. It doesn't understand what kind of vine is good if it doesn't see actually. I will teach in detail in the workshop etc.

Details of the mechanism are not understood though the thing put in the room is a thing to cause fermentation. However, I think the first time in attention to the fermentation bacterium the Oi river gross cloth. I think that it is a bacillus subtilis that presses fermentation. A lot of bacillus nattos and bacillus subtilises have adhered to the leaf of a gramineous plant. [**] turns over and thinks of the string even though is a bacillus subtilis because there is no [goto] though took the theory of the bacillus natto so far (There is one kind of bacillus natto the dry grass bacterium, too). The temperature of man becomes the best as for the fermentation temperature. Because this bacillus subtilis also has power to resolve cellulose, the epidermal of the vine is fermented by this fermentation and I understand it not only takes but also the fiber of the vine is softened. Because the epidermal is taken by the power of the fermentation bacterium, the surface can not hurt, and the string of a beautiful vine of luster be caught.
White mold grows when it goes well fermentation. This is bacillus subtilis's spore. The thing that fermentation ends is shown.

There is a room of the gross cloth when it digs up the soil and it paves, and straw and the Japanese pampas grass are grown on the inside. Though this is an established theory
It is because of assuming the origin of the article and the research from Sichuan in the Sichuan [dakoukichi] shop in Kakegawa. This method is a way done in a Kakegawa Ichikura true district. The same and the room are made, the fermentation bacterium breeds there, and I think that I become a room accustomed for years. If you mimic it, putrid bacteria seem to enter easily, and to become big the probability of the failure.
The soil is not dug up in the Oi river gross cloth. Enough and the Japanese pampas grass are put and grown on dry soil or gravel.
The failure is also few, and recommended methods in the beginner though it is troublesome that this method reaps the Japanese pampas grass.
This room making was taught to mulberry high [tamasan] in the method of the hotel (Kakegawa City of present) on the day slope.
Other room making various buried it under the mastaba and the rice field existed.

The water quality becomes important though the vine is washed in the river. It becomes not lustrous in effectiveness if it washes in tap water etc.The wash place was changed three times for these ten years in the Oi river gross cloth for a good water quality. The thing to which water pollution is so advanced is actually felt.

When the gross cloth was made, the vine ramie was applied to the entertainment soup so far. The ramie can be made white by doing it. However, it is thought that there is no thing bleached with the entertainment soup if the selection of the fiber is steady in the Oi river gross cloth. The resin drops, too, when bleaching it with the entertainment soup strength weakens, luster is ruined, and it is thought that it is easy to advance in the change in the passing age. I think that I can do a lustrous vine cloth if a good fiber is chosen.

To scoop [hiraito] of the vine, [reed] of the gross cloth is driven. It is possible to drive it without the part where the fiber of the vine is flat collapsing by the thing done so. However, the string cannot be driven well by the scooped thing. The technology is asked.

The cloth that uses [tsuguri] is a cloth on Yaeyama, and [bashoufu], etc. besides the kudzu cloth. However, everyone must make in the cocoon type, and [itobata]
It puts it out from the inside. When the string goes out by the thing done so, it twists a little. [Tsuguri] of the kudzu cloth makes like the cucumber, and puts out the string from side. Twisting it therefore doesn't hang easily, and it ..[hiraito].. goes out ..the remainder...

The kudzu cloth loom is not horizontally putting passing. The man rolling side is low.
[**kamachi] lightly puts out the parallel with [**hi]. It is a device that puts out flat of [kazuraito] all.