{"id":14542,"date":"2018-03-19T14:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedailycouture.com\/2018\/03\/19\/francais-tissus-innovants-japon\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T01:59:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:59:44","slug":"francais-tissus-innovants-japon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailycouture.com\/en\/francais-tissus-innovants-japon\/","title":{"rendered":"MADE IN JAPAN : THREE NEW TEXTILES PRESENTED BY THE SHOWROOM J-TEX IN PARIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The discovery of craft skills has the particularity of always arousing the curiosity and wonder of a local culture, climate, wisdom and techniques born in a more or less distant time. When Japanese textile know-how is exhibited in the J-Tex Showroom, the event attracts fashion professionals for a more pragmatic reason, however: the textile innovation born on Japanese lands rich in excellent craftsmanship turned towards the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For the past ten years, the Parisian event has attracted designers, fabric buyers and major French fashion houses to \u00a0Square Edouard VII where, for four days (from 12 to 15 March this year), were exhibited the latest fabrics by sometimes century-old Japanese companies. This year, The Daily Couture shares three favorite innovations reflecting research focused on greener textiles and the latest innovation by a 151-year-old craft company.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wooden yarn fabrics by Washino nuno, founded in 1962<\/span><\/h4>\n

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This season, the newest innovation by Washino nuno, says Mr. Yutaka Ikeda, head of the J-Tex Showroom, is the “Mokuito” wooden yarn fabric, now suitable for textile manufacturing – five years after its first version. Made from Japanese cedar and cypress grown in Osaka, the fabric contains no harmful chemicals, I was told, unlike rayon. The weaving methods made it possible to display textiles for clothing, accessories, decoration and household linen. Far from being satisfied with a technical feat, namely overcoming the difficulty of making a paper yarn with a high enough strength to weave them, Washino nuno tried to make a fabric that best respected its natural environment.\u00a0 The company explains that it has succeeded in developing the complete cycle of fabric recycling: from raw material recovery to spinning.\u00a0 Thanks to departmental subsidies from the City of Osaka and the Government Forest Agency, wood chips are collected from trees that have been previously cut for the necessary maintenance of the forests, and originally considered as waste, I was told.\u00a0 The recovered wood chips are transformed into wood paper according to the traditional know-how of washi, then into wood yarns, to finally create a fabric made of wood yarns… Below, this video on the history of the company founded in 1962.<\/span><\/p>\n