Super Water-Repellent Furoshiki NAGARE official site >> - design -
This page introduces types of material, sizes, and designs of NAGARE.
*Click on image to enlarge.
*It can hold up to approximately 10 liters (a bucket full) of water.
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 96 x 96 cm
weight: about 140g
MADE IN JAPAN
IMPRESSION
designer: Maki Kouno
Purple flowers resting on ink black-colored patterns.
This multi-purposeful design with a soothing shade complements Japanese or Western-style attire.
PEONIES AND MUMS
designer: Maki Kouno
Peonies and chrysanthemums are spread large across the fabric.
The Chinese-style blue is a fresh hue.
MARINE STRIPES
designer: Jun Ito
The stripes are designed to look nice when wrapped in shape of a bag.
It is a variation of the standard structure of furoshiki, so go ahead and wrap up a square box, you'll love how it looks.
When you look closely, some borders will seem incomplete. As if sea gulls were flying away...
HUNDO
designer: Jun Ito
Traditionally, weights pattern are considered auspicious motifs, because weights were cast in gold and silver. HUNDO is an weights pattern consisted of small shapes of weights. The color of the fabric changes from dark blue to brown, giving different impressions on how to wrap and tie.
SOMETSUKE
designer: Maki Kouno
This pattern adopts the images of white x marine blue (lapis lazuri) of Imari that is one of the top brand in the world of porcelain for long time, and also accepts the penmanship of porcelain colorations. At the same time we pay our homage to the Japanese pottery cultures and the artisans' techniques from the Jomon period of several thousand year ago.
GLENURQUHART CHECK
designer: ASAKURA SENPU Co., LTD
A trad glenurquhart check originally from Scotland.
Orange and blue add a little splash of color to this gray base.
SMILEY TOWN
designer: Takuya Suga
It is a furoshiki of a completely new atmosphere which wasn't seen in the lineup of "NAGARE" in the past. Colors of green, yellow, and red inserted into a town in the best placement are pleasant to the eye, so its design makes you want to use it in various situations.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
designer: Hiroko Sueyoshi
It is a carousel of a pleasant atmosphere in which rabbits and foxes go round together with horses. Since each position and design of dummy horses is slightly different, you can choose the suitable one to the size of a wrapped thing or your liking. Each color used in the pattern of dummy horse causes to feel warmth.
Trees
designer: Mai Ehara
This pattern contains very gentle green and blue which makes you feel comforted. Small houses nestling in the woods are very impressive.
Field
designer: Mai Ehara
Grasses, flowers, bushy trees, birds and calm slow time...
It's the flanked product with "Trees".
Town
designer: Mai Ehara
A small town lined with blue houses you only could see in the picture books. Both houses and leaves of trees look sparkling after a sudden shower stopped. Doors and windows of houses are opened, and everyone goes outside. A townscape just before the rainfall is drawn in a quiet moment.
Basket
designer: Minako Okamoto
On a basket weave pattern made of straw knitted politely, an uplifting ethnic pattern is arranged. If it is tied like a bag, it will change to a nature-friendly ecological bag.
SUMMER
designer: Maki Kouno
This pattern expresses Japanese vivid summer scene by twelve ancient Japanese colors. It images blue sky, sea breeze, growing leaves, or so.
IKI
designer: Maki Kouno
Hanafuda is Japanese playing card and it has been played for long time. Japanese traditional colors which are red, green, mustard and black give you an image of stylish Japanese culture like a Kabuki's thick curtain.
COLOR BLOCKS
designer: Miki Takahashi
Brightly-colored blocks are spread over this pattern.
Colorful, but with a shade that is slightly reserved. It is reserved so its good for various occasions.
LEATHER CAMO
designer: ASAKURA SENPU Co., LTD
Camouflage design with a leather motif.
Although it has a black base, it somehow manages to provide a sense of warmth.
OLD TIMES
designer: Maki Kouno
The pattern represents glimpses of old days Japan when time passed a little bit slower than today. Seasonal items, old fashioned toys and others which were all familiar in everyday life in those days, are gathered together. The soft salmon pink Furoshiki will gently wrap up your memories.
ICHIMATSU
designer: Maki Kouno
It's a traditional Japanese checkerboard pattern. Big patterns and small patterns are divided in quarters. When you wrap a present with this furoshiki, you can put the small checkerboard pattern in front or the big one in front as you like.
SHOOTING STARS
designer: Eriko Hayakawa
This has an audacious design of many shooting stars which are twinkle down on the cities. The grdation of the night sky and the colorful cities make beautiful color combinations.This design will be liked by men and women of all ages.
BANDANNA pattern
designer: Maki Kouno
Bandanna is useful for general purpose like furoshiki. Using Japanese motives such as flowers and birds, cotton prints and braids makes this furoshiki matches both western clothes and Japanese kimono.
BANDANNA [pink]
designer: Maki Kouno
With familiar and versatile “bandana” pattern as basis, inherent Japanese taste is added by incorporating Japanese traditional patterns including those of flowers/birds, calico and braded cord. As elegant pink is used in the background, you can use it on many occasions.
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 70 x 70 cm
weight: about 85g
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FLAG CHECK
designer: Jun Ito
The check design woven with flags of 204 countries and regions.
This is a new interpretation of the flags of nations.
An ordinary day
with a flower
designer: Tatsuhiko Karasawa
A dog strikes poses to a flower, which is his ordinary day. A turquoise blue flower and the humorous brown dog complement each other in their colors.
FUROSHIKI KARUTA
designer: Studio Uni
46 different picture cards and reading cards (the first letter of each word starts from different Japanese letter) which humorously explain the usage direction of this water repellent furoshiki. You will be surprised to know there are so many different way of usages it has!
NATSU TSUBAKI
designer: Eiko Isokawa
The tone down color of spiral shaped center is very impressive. Background line makes feeling of stir to these flowers (Summer Camellia).
PARK
designer: Eriko Hayakawa
Please wrap any items in this Furoshiki with the excitement you could feel on a sunny holiday. You can also enjoy a different character a Furoshiki takes on with each way of wrapping. The bright sky blue in joyful amusement park pattern is very impressive.
*Crinkled crêpe fabric uses twisted thread, which creates bigger gaps in the weave pattern and, unlike the plain weave fabric, cannot hold water.(It can repel water)
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 96 x 96 cm
weight: about 165g
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TAZUKASUMI
designer: Maki Kouno
"Tsuru-zu Shita-e Waka Kan (poem scroll with underpainting of cranes)" by Sotatsu Tawaraya, the founding father of a Japanese art style "Rinpa," is its image sauce. "Tazu" is an old term for crane in Manyo-shu (the oldest anthology of tanka). Though a traditional pattern "Kasumi-mon " is used for its background, it has a modern design of the flying crane in the sky of the new era Reiwa.
*Amundsen uses twisted thread, which creates a larger weave pattern, but it can hold about four liters of water. It is not recommended for transporting water because any more water will result in a leak.
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 128 x 128 cm or 70 x 70 cm
weight: about 200g or 60g
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ASAGI
(Pale blue-green)
designer: Naomi Shirai
This furoshiki's motif is Parantica sita. This butterfly has elegant wing and flies long distance. Parantica sita's scales has an effect of water repellent so it is the best motif for NAGARE.
THE CATS OF WEALTH
designer: Chiemi Itoi
Many Maneki-neko, or beckoning cats are radially drawn utilizing a pen, watercolor paints and colored pencils. They are believed to draw happiness and fortune, by beckoning with one paw. Please wrap up what you choose in the Furoshiki together with fortune they bring in.
AFFECTIONATE FEATHERS
designer: Natsumi Saito
The idea of this design comes from feathers of parent birds affectionately protecting their eggs. Use this to wrap up what you value. Bird's feathers has a feature of protecting important things from rain, just like NAGARE does.
*Crinkled crêpe fabric uses twisted thread, which creates a larger weave pattern, but it can hold about four liters of water. It is not recommended for transporting water because any more water will result in a leak.
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 96 x 96 cm
weight: about 100g
MADE IN JAPAN
A tough taffeta Furoshiki in 125-cm size can hold and carry as much as 20 liters of water.
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 125 x 125cm
weight: about 160g
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Pixeled Ichimatsu pattern
designer: ASAKURA SENPU Co., LTD
Ichimatsu pattern, a Japanese classic checkered pattern is drawn on Furoshiki
with dots in aubergine which is fit for people of all ages regardless of sex.
(*Ichimatsu pattern was first sawn in Haniwa figurine’s costume in Kofun period around 3th century,
then used by only noble persons, but became popular among citizens in Edo period(1603-1868) when Kabuki actors started wearing this pattern costume)
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 125 x 125cm
Furoshiki weight:about 160g
Case weight: about 10g
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AKAYA'S ANIMALS
designer: iicamo
In agreement with the Akaya Project initiative from the Nature Conservation Association of Japan which aims for the restoration of biological diversity and the creation of sustainable communities, Akaya’s Animals features a camouflage pattern with a motif of the rare animals that live in the 10,000-hectare national forest, Akaya Forest, that extends across the border between the northern part of Gunma Prefecture’s Minakami-machi and Niigata Prefecture.
COW
designer: iicamo
Cow-motif Camouflage hide pattern. Cows swarm leisurely, feeding on hay in various parts of the pattern. Maybe you and your friends should try to find out cows in the characteristic mottled pattern with lots of laughs and good fun.
NATIVES
designer: iicamo
Totem pole-themed camouflage pattern. What you can see here and there are hiding various
characters in legends and mythology passed down from generation to generation among aboriginal
people living in northwest coastal area facing the Pacific Ocean in North America.
It is nice to look at their facial expression full of life and showing something humorous.