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.
Panda
designer Masumi Hotta
A panda family is riding in a hot-air balloon in the blue sky. The motif drawn in watercolor is printed. Its bright design would lighten your heart. You can enjoy the vivid colors of watercolor in this furoshiki.
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.
Wrap with flowers
designer: MIYA JUNKO
With an image of such scenes that you wrap a precious item or present, flowers are depicted on the furoshiki to add a colorful impression to wrapped contents. Large flowers arranged at the four corners are seen by ways of wrapping providing different moods depending on the kind of flowers depicted.
STARRY SKY
designer Sara Kikkoji
This is an image of a winter starry sky. When water is repelled, the water drops make the starry sky twinkle.
Miracle of blue
designer Hiroshi Miyamae / Naoko Sonoda
Water can change its shape freely with natural phenomena, while furoshiki can change its shape freely with various scenes of people. By superimposing water and furoshiki, we have created a design softly enveloping people's thoughts and feelings with reflection of a fleeting moment of miracle and trajectory.
Sunlight through the trees
designer Mitsuki Nagaoka
The shades of green express the sunlight through the branches and leaves, seen when we look up at the sky in the shade of a tree. When wrapping, you can enjoy the changes with a part you see.
Wrapping with the Night Forest
designer MIYA JUNKO
A forest illuminated by a large full moon. The unobtrusive pattern drawn in dark blue and white is sedate. Since the pattern is divided into two large halves, detailed pattern of plants and simple pattern, you can show each half as desired.
TOUCAN PARADISE
designer Akiko Maruyama
This is a combination of agave, the most majestic of succulents, and the fluffy and charming toucan. The coexistence of these different images creates an interesting visual effect when wrapping in the furoshiki. This is a vivid and impactful pattern not only when spread out, but also when wrapped around things and partially displayed.
GOLDFISH
designer: Miki Takahashi
Goldfish swimming in the water call forth a cool breeze.
This familiar fish has been loved by the Japanese since the Edo-period (from 17th century to mid-19th century).
RABBIT-EAR IRIS
designer: Maki Kouno
In the Edo period (1603-1868), there was an artistic style called "Rinpa," which influenced later Japanese art. The rabbit-ear iris is one of the representative motifs of Rinpa style. The noble atmosphere of the flower is incorporated into the stripe pattern.
Morning glory
designer: Maki Kouno
In a horticulture boom of the Edo-period (from 17th century to mid-19th century), cultivation of morning glory was popular. With the image of "hana-awase (flower contest)" in which the quality of various kinds of morning glories was judged, its bold and light design like the yukata (summer kimono) for a summer festival is made with various tie-dyed patterns.
Linkage
designer: Chie Okamura
The furoshiki has been created in the motif of streets in Kyoto which are linked together like a grid pattern. Colors of red, yellow and blue are effectively scattered between the curved lines. It’s pretty simple to use not just for wrapping items but also for bag wrapping.
machine
designer: Takuya Suga
It is a pattern of various machines’ pictures colored at random using brown and gray as the base.Based on a musical image of synthesizer and speaker as well as an industrial image of series of various machines in line, we have pursued a pattern to be loved by not only young ladies but men as well.
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.
ROMANDALA
designer: Kosei Okada
Patterns of Egypt are so refined that you wouldn't think they had been drawn thousands of years ago, and they evoke a sense of romanticism. Making such Egypt romanticism its origin, it is designed with a mandala (the devotional paintings of Buddhism)
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.
COLORFUL
designer: Motohiro Ohsawa
It is the mysterious pattern which seems like many squares stand out in polka dots. Even though it uses Japanese classic colors, the image of this pattern is very modern and gives you a pop feeling.
minamo
designer: Hutanashi Hyouhon
It is the unique design which displays stick glasses and expresses the surface of water. It is added a playful touch with translucent beautiful colors with dots and water droplet.
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.
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.
materials: 100% Polyester
size: about 70 x 70 cm
weight: about 85g
MADE IN JAPAN
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.
*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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Pinwheel
designer: Ryoko Yamamoto
A colorful and free touch is added to Japanese traditional hemp leaf pattern. You can enjoy the hand-drawn warmth and the vivid color gradation.
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.
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.