{"product_id":"red-seigaiha-furoshiki-akanami","title":"Red Seigaiha Furoshiki 'Akanami'","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRed furoshiki cloth printed with the overlapping-wave pattern in reds and pink with gold\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wave pattern, in reds. This cloth is printed edge to edge with the overlapping scales of the seigaiha in red, coral, pink and wine, each scale drawn in concentric lines and outlined in gold, the colours changing from scale to scale so the cloth reads as red from a distance and as a mosaic from close. It is the wave cloth in the colour of luck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the third of the four wave cloths in the collection, and the one for a New Year table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name, Akanami, is the red wave, and the cloth is a sea of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cloth is a fine, close-woven fabric with a soft hand and a little body, printed with the design and then with a metallic gold that sits on the surface as a line, so the pattern is flat and the gold catches light. It is the cloth of a Japanese print shop, the kind sold by the metre for kimono linings and bags.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse it the way a furoshiki is used: tie it round a bottle with the ends knotted into a handle, wrap a box with the corners folded and tied, roll a lunch in it, or lay it down the middle of a table. Tied at the neck it is a scarf; hung from a rod it is a picture. The cloth is the gift and the wrapping, and it is used again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wine is the detail: the darkest of the four colours, it is placed so it reads as the shadow of the pattern, and the coral as the light, so the flat print has relief. The gold outline is on every scale and the concentric lines are in a darker red.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand wash cool or machine wash on a gentle cycle in a bag, and dry flat out of the sun, which is what the gold asks for; iron on the reverse on low. The print is fast and the metallic line stays through washing if it is not scrubbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom across a table it is a red cloth with a scale texture. From close the scales show their lines, the gold its outline, and the four reds their order. It is the cloth for a gift in red and a person who likes it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt measures 50 by 145 cm, which is a rectangle, not the square of a traditional furoshiki, and we say so: it wraps a bottle or a long box the way a square does, and it runs down a table or ties round a neck the way a square does not. A single piece, hemmed on all four sides, one size.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YONAKU","offers":[{"title":"50x145cm","offer_id":59207719715164,"sku":"14:202072807#61;5:361386#50x145cm","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/3386\/6332\/files\/red-seigaiha-furoshiki-akanami-1.jpg?v=1790585279","url":"https:\/\/yonaku.com\/products\/red-seigaiha-furoshiki-akanami","provider":"YONAKU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}