So I go raiding through my fabric stash and find some suitable fabric and using measurements provided by a kimono magazine I had I started.
And above is the finished article, I chose to make a medium sized one beacuse I remember someone on the IG forums saying they kept there kimono in the medium sized tatoushi. Anyway as you can see from the 2nd picture, a kimono does fit but it has to be folded up from the bottom. I'm also going to order some minicards from a company called moocards. The minicard comes in a box of 100 and is like a business card but half the size and they allow you to a different design on each card! So I'm going to take pictures of all my kimono collection and get them printed out and hang them from the tatoushi zip pull, because I don't have any see thorugh window on the tatoushi. If anyone is interested I will post a tutorial.
Now I have to make about 100 of these fabric tatoushi to house my collection!
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I like those, far better then the paper ones. Where did you find such long zips?
You need to make 100 more! That is a lot of tatoushi to make. It will keep you busy for a long time.
I will have to wait until I have more space before reorganising my kimono and obi.
Yes, please post a tutorial!!! :)
The moocards sounds like a great idea, except...
A mini card is 70 x 28 mm
and 100 cost 12 Pound + 3 Pound P&P.
Hm.
The first online fotoservice I googled does
10x15 photoprints on Kodak paper of my jpegs for 0.07 Euro
(that's 6 minicards per 10x15 cm)
so 17 photos 1.19 euro + 0.99 'administration' + 2.59 Euro Post& Package := 4,77 Euro
Ok, so moocards are 350 g/m²
Even the professional kodak paper at 250 grams adds up to 7.62 Euro
(half the price)
The corner copy shop might even develop your jpegs for less on their colorcopier/printer
Or just have it printed by a friend with a colorprinter ( his color ink cassettes are drying up by themselves anyway)
Sure, you have to cut them up yourself. But they're gonna be used as labels!
And,errr :) don't you need to save 150 quid for your iPod repair ?
See you!
Oh, loved those steamed buns.
Yours truly,
El cheapo
I'd love to see a tutorial on how to make fabric tatoushi. :) I can link to it from my blog too if you want- I do a lot of kimono-related link stuff.
Hmm Walter, you make a good point. I was thinking of doing what you just suggested but colour ink on my printer costs £25 + photo paper + time, the moocards takes care of all that.
Also I don't think I'll be fixing the phone, £150 is just too much for a repair! I've already brought a new phone (cost me £16 and that includes £10 credit!) & I love it, it's not possessed like my iphone was.
It was possessed ? Maybe you should dunk it in holy water , to make sure.
Ofcourse if you want to print your cards using 10*15 cm photoprints , you need to size the pictures and combine 6 of them in each jpeg.
Moocards can have text on the opposite side and you can upload pictures one at a time, sizing and cropping online ( which also takes a bit of time )
It's a time-convenience versus money tradeoff :-) which is what life is all about , no ?
See you,
Walter
I wonder if there aren't alternatives to that very long zipper ?
It looks like an accident waiting to happen, when you favourite kimono gets shredded by getting its valuable fabric caught just as you zip or unzip the thing.
I speak from experience : zippers are nasty little buggers with a lot of metal teeth that are just waiting to grab hold of any fabric nearby and chew it up.
Cheers!
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