Textile arts of Japan

thumb|Modern are popular as an environmentally-friendly alternative to wrapping paper. thumb|Two homemade bento boxes with wrappings

thumb| upright=1.4|thumb|Tenugui are also worn, including by athletes. This is a typical Kendo#clothing|Kendo-style . A is a traditional Japanese decorative towel made from a thin and light cotton. It dates back to the Heian period or earlier. By the Edo period, became what they are today; about in size, plain woven, and almost always dyed with plain color or some pattern. The long sides are finished with a selvage, while the short sides are left unfinished to allow fraying.

Traditional Japanese hand ball

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class of Japanese textiles that have been mended or patched together

thumb| Habutai (from the Japanese , literally "feather-two-layer", also spelled habotai or habutae) is one of the most basic plain weaves of silk fabric. While it was traditionally woven in Japan, most habutai is today woven in China. It is normally a lining silk but can also be used for T-shirts, lampshades, summer blouses or very light lingerie. It is quite easy to dye and can be found in many stores.

thumb|right|300px|19th-century portraying Jō and Uba in a scene from the Noh play ; embroidered silk and couched gold-wrapped thread on indigo-dyed satin silk

collection of colors traditionally used in Japanese-related things

thumb|alt=Fabric decorated with a busy design of diamonds constructed from light green bamboo stems and blue, pink and purple flowers on a white background.| fabric thumb|alt=The back view of a white kimono dyed with .|19th century ramie Ryukyuan dress showing -dyed design of bamboo, cranes and plum blossoms

colors used by aristocracy in Heian-kyō

thumb|Matching bags is a traditional Japanese drawstring bag, used like a handbag (similar to the English reticule) for carrying around personal possessions; smaller ones are usually used as (a hanging object attached to an obi), and used to carry small objects such as loose coinage, cosmetics, lucky charms, hand warmers and mobile phones. Larger versions can be used to carry (packed lunchboxes) and utensils, as well as other larger possessions. The bags traditionally carried by and geisha are a variant on , and are called (literally 'basket') after their woven basket base.

is a traditional craft textile produced in the Amami Islands (mainly Amami Ōshima) in northern Ryukyu Islands, Japan. It is a hand-woven plain-weave silk cloth dyed in mud. The textile is most commonly used for making kimonos. Oshima-tsumugi kimonos are often simply called Ōshima. thumb|upright|A woman wearing a Tatsugo pattern Ōshima-tsumugi on a World Heritage promotion poster thumb|upright|Detail of an Oshima kimono up close.