Paste made from steamed glutinous rice is used as a resist paste (bōsen nori). At Nagata’s dye house they use glutinous rice only, and it takes one to two weeks to produce the paste. The paste is then set in a tsutsu funnel that has been treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu).
A selection of Tsutsugaki fabrics on Pinterest.
Japanese tsutsugaki folk textiles are renowned for their bold, traditional, auspicious and life-affirming pictorial motifs. Throughout rural Japan, tsutsugaki pieces were made by commoners for use by their fellow commoners.