Uguisu and camelia motif tsukesage

To byla spontaniczna i dość nonszalancka przymiarka mojego nowego kimona, które kupiłam dobre pół roku temu. Całe lato o nim myslałam, ale ta pora roku nie sprzyja zakładaniu awase, czyli kimona na podszewce.
Zachwycona jestem delikatnością rysunku ptaszków "uguisu" wśród kwitnących kamelii, piekielne zdjęcia nie oddają w ogóle kolorów, na tych zdjęciach tło jest bladoróżowe:( Tylko ostatnie zdjęcie, nieco zbliża się do oryginału.
Ptaszki mają wyhaftowane oczy i dzioby.
To dziwne, bo po raz pierwszy nie jestem w ogóle pewna, czy kimono jest z prawdziwego czy sztucznego jedwabiu. Pięknie się układa, jedynym problemem jest to że jest przeznaczone dla osoby o wiele wyższej ode mnie. Ułożenie ładnego, chludnego ohashiori to sztuka nie lada.

It was a spontaneous and quite nonchalant trying on my new kimono that I bought a good half a year ago. I thought about it all summer, but this time of year is not great time to puting awase, a kimono with a lining.
I am delighted with the delicacy of drawing Uguisu birds among blooming camelia, hellish pictures do reflect real colors not at all, in these pictures the background is pale pink :( Only the last picture is a little closer to the original.
Birds have embroidered eyes and beaks.
It's strange, first time I'm not sure if kimono is a real or artificial silk. But the only problem is that it is designed for people with a lot higher than me. Laying nice, neat ohashiori it great job.

Tagosode "whose sleeves?" motif

 I love tagasode motif very much, it`s sophisticated and refined, ussually elaboratelly woven or emroidered. All the items I`ve seen ever are terribly expencive. There are many collectors keen on this motif and few items to get. I admire tagosode kimono and obi stuff.

Here there is great explanation of meaning this title motif "tagasode"

my version of summer evening in Beppu

You know this beautiful  bijin ga painting  by Hirano Hakuho? A few years ego I made my yuzen paper version of this masterpiece titled "Evening mist". I still think about it as my one of the best paper works I `ve ever made. Watching some old posts at  my moligami blog I felt  strong need to do kitsuke more or less in this way. My fault -blurred pics, but please share my joy of wearing a kimono since ages!!!

outfit: black sha hitoe & red hakata obi with tsunodashi musubi. I wish I had real summer addings but these I have had to be enough

it`s time for SPRING finally

Never before all people round have been wainting so long for spring like in this year, me too. Cold and darnkess do not support me in care of my kimono collection. It`s time to look through the things and try new combination for this strange snowy spring

Momiji motif in my art

Autumn isn`t my favourite season but the looking at wonderful bright, red maples trees from our Lodz Botanical garden inspired me to mention about great autumn kimono motif like momiji leaves. So searching my kimono and craft collection let me to find quit a lot examples how ellegant and joyful motif momiji is.

Vintage homoungi

Cause we  have been waiting for summer weather in Poland  I`ve decided to try coordinate my greatest purchase  before a few months finally.

This is the most vintage  and most expencive kimono in my tansu. I suppose it comes from pre II War time, late Taisho or early Showa era. I hope someone will help me with identifiction of this beautiful vintage outfit. Unfortunatelly I haven`t too many vintage addings to be adequate to the kimono formality and to let me fully respect the seasonality and pattern rank of this stunning kimono.

This ensemble is still in progress, I need other ideas for giving the splendor for this baby. Firstly I tried to use this hikinuki obi: But then I can`t coordinate any reasonable addings and this obi is so aged that when I tried to tie I only terribly tore it up in one place so I gave up to not destoy it much more.

Kimono meeting in Cracow

Hello, I`d like to show you our first kimono meeting in Kimono de jack formula in Poland.

We met in Cracow in Southern Poland, old capital city. This is place is so wonderful and there is amazing international atmosphere. Initiator of the idea was Ania ((in strawberry yukata). She is is master of tea ceremony and owing her efforts we could visit Japanese cultural centre Manggha for free. Walking through streets of the Old Town was really funny, people smiled seeing us. When we reached the main place of Cravow- the Old Marketplace, we melted in the international crowd of visitors. After quick photo session under an Adam Mickiewicz`s monument we went to the sushii restaurant and have a lot of fun.

It was really great experience and really hudge challenge to wear a kimono or even yukata in such hot day! But we hope we can do it more often!!!

On these photos there is wonderful view where can be seen  something really old- Wawel Castle (the old seat of Polish Kings)  on the right river bank and  something quite new - a building of the Japanese Muzeum Manggha on the left.

and the most international place for meeting in Poland-the old Marktplace in Cracow:

....and finally I made myself to finish my embroidered haneri but regret cause have no close pic showing this piece. and I used for the first time one of kanzashi received from my friend Nela as a gift.