These yarn are silk. I got impulse buying, because these were so beautiful. I'm not going to make something though. Japanese traditional cloths of Kimono are made of silk. An artisan has to raise silkworm, dying yarn and weaving. At present time, it seems to decrease the number of the artisan who does all the process. I read a newspaper the other day, young mail of foreign country has started to do this job. Japanese young people don't like such work what takes long time. I wonder silk cloths will be make by only big company in the future.
I know Indian people has made homespun cloth。
返信削除They also dye and spin it themselves even recently. It is called KHADI（カディ.
http://www.teentaal.nu/corner/about_khadi.html