Senshu Towel / Japanese Traditional Pattern / Set of 5

Product Description

Product Story

General Product Information

This face towel uses auspicious patterns from among the many Japanese komon patterns.
The “Chidori” (blue) represents family safety and wealth, the “Sakura” (pink) signifies a good beginning, the “Ajiro” (white) is said to keep out evil spirits, and the “Karakusa” (red) symbolizes vitality,

Ajiro (Yellow), which is said to keep out evil spirits, and arabesque (Green), which symbolizes vitality.

You can choose from a variety of colors, patterns, and meanings of the patterns.

 Product History

When did these crafts start to craft?：160 years ago / 1868AD / Meiji period in Japan

In 1885, Enjiro Satoi, a cotton weaver, was shown towels made in Germany by a friend, an import merchant. At the time, imported towels were expensive and were only used by a limited number of upper class people as lapel wraps. Satoi focused on the pile structure of the towels, their high absorbency, and the speed with which they dried, and was convinced that they would surely be used in Japanese daily life as a substitute for hand towels. He decided to devote himself to the domestic production of towels, abandoned his family's cotton weaving business, and rented a house in Nakajo, Kitanakadori-mura, Sennan-gun (now Izumisano City), where he devoted himself to research. After much hard work, he succeeded in weaving towels by terry motion in 1887, the current weaving method. After that, Satoi exported the “Gozarashi Towel” to Shanghai and started factory production. He also encouraged his friends and acquaintances who were suffering from the recession of the time to take up towel weaving, thus creating the foundation of the Senshu towel production area. This is the origin of the domestic towel industry and the reason why Enjiro Satoi is honored as the founder of the Japanese towel industry.

Craftsman Story

Craftsman Profile

Nitta Towel Ltd.

Nitta Towel Ltd. was founded over 70 years ago and has been making Senshu towels ever since.
Senshu towels were the first towels made in Japan with a history of over 130 years.
Nitta Towel uses a unique manufacturing process to produce such Senshu towels that are eco-friendly and pleasant to the touch.

Craftsman Passion

"Natural Environmentally Friendly Towels"
In the general towel manufacturing process, glue and other materials are used. However, the glue must be washed off at the end of the process. These materials end up in the wastewater.
However, Nitta Towel are made without using glue, and the glue does not get mixed in wastewater. In addition, the process of glue adhesion and permeation is eliminated, which significantly reduces the use of electricity and heat energy, thus contributing to CO2 emissions reduction.

Nitta Towel's towels are more voluminous, softer to the touch, and more environmentally friendly than ordinary towels.

Your Contribution to Craftsman

Customer Voice

Due to the market structure (link for full articles are attached bottom), craftsman have not known who the customer is and how customer reacts to their work. We made a “Message to Craftsman” box at purchase page. We will deliver all message to every craftsman. Our review will be also shared to craftsman so please leave your comment and evaluation on review section!

Income for Craftsman: Craftsman get only less than 10% of selling price?

As written above, craftsman have not controlled last phase of sales channel that resulting in selling price is set by third-party without craftsman’s recognition. There are some cases that only less than 10% of selling price is given to craftsman. We promise with our customer / craftsman that we offer the fair trade with craftsmen in our contract!

We made an article about above problem and our challenge. Please have a read from below link.
Current state of the Crafts Market / Benefits brought by Suigenkyo

Measurement

Width : 34cm
Height : 90cm
Weight : 72g

Material & Caution

Materials

Cotton

Caution

If we do not have the product in stock, it will take a month to produce.