Mooka cotton

Japanese: 真岡木綿 - もおかもめん
Mooka cotton

Also written as Keka. Cotton fabric produced mainly in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture. It has long been hand-woven as a side job for farmers. It is a typical narrow-width white cotton fabric made with hand-spun warp and weft threads and a dense weave of fine threads, and is used for medium-width (yukata) cloth. It was at its peak between 1804 and 1844 (Bunka 1 to Koka 1), when it was dyed in light or grass-colored colors such as asagi and chigusa, and used for jackets and linings. The same narrow-width white cotton fabric from the Chita region of Aichi Prefecture is called "Oka cotton."

[Namiki Satoru]

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Japanese:

毛加とも書く。栃木県真岡市を中心に産した木綿織物。農家の副業として古くから手織りされた。経緯(たてよこ)糸に手紡糸を使用し、細糸を緻密(ちみつ)に組織した、代表的な小幅白木綿地で、中形(ちゅうがた)(浴衣(ゆかた))生地(きじ)などに使用される。1804~44年(文化1~弘化1)のころが最盛期で、浅葱(あさぎ)、千草などの淡色または草色染めにし、上着および裏地に用いた。なお、同じ小幅白木綿地でも、愛知県知多(ちた)地方のものは「岡木綿」とよばれる。

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