Arrrgh!!!

[KhawMengLee]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3227544878&category=11120

nuff said!

[KENSHIN]

awwww, how cute. :D

[Simon Chien]

I think I'll join the bid for my kids ......................

[JSchmidt]

Cool!..I want one!

Jakob

[mingshi]

For more variety of Tenugui design check these out.

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%A4%C6%A4%CC%A4%B0%A4%A4&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%BC%EA%A4%CC%A4%B0%A4%A4&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%BC%EA%BF%A1%A4%A4&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp

What disappoint me is that they don't do international shipping :(

[aru-ma]

They dont look bad, I wouldnt mind getting some, I've been doing kendo for 3 years with only 1 tenugui.

How did the they get a british airways tenugui in the first place?

[Charlie]

I love it!

Hunh. I was lead to believe that making tenegui was kind of hard, as the material is stitched in kind of a weird manner. Otherwise, I would love to have a tenegui with a little prayer on it to read before putting it on. Although I love my shu ha ri tenegui and my "Moko" tenegui.

[Hai_hai]

Originally posted by mingshi
For more variety of Tenugui design check these out.

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%A4%C6%A4%CC%A4%B0%A4%A4&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%BC%EA%A4%CC%A4%B0%A4%A4&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp

http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/search/auc?p=%BC%EA%BF%A1%A4%A4&auccat=0&alocale=0jp&acc=jp

What disappoint me is that they don't do international shipping :(

Like, where are my pictures?

[Neil Gendzwill]

Originally posted by Charlie
I love it!

Hunh. I was lead to believe that making tenegui was kind of hard, as the material is stitched in kind of a weird manner. Otherwise, I would love to have a tenegui with a little prayer on it to read before putting it on. Although I love my shu ha ri tenegui and my "Moko" tenegui.
The material isn't stitched in a weird manner, it's simply woven on a narrow loom that isn't available in North America. The stitching you are referring to is just the finished edge of the cloth. All of the cloth you buy in the US/Canada is woven on looms over 100 cm wide. So if you want to make a tenugui here, you have to hem up one side. Whereas in Japan the tenugui are woven on the same sized looms used to make material for obi and so forth, ie the 30 cm-ish width is common there.

The other issue is the way the material is printed. It's hard to find a place here that will make a pattern with dye the way the Japanese tenugui are done, it's usually silk-screened with ink so you get it only on one side and it doesn't breath there. If anyone knows of a place in the US or Canada that does the tenugui-style printing (don't know what it's called), please let me know.

[KATSUJIN]

i have to say sonething about the hello kitty tenegui....AAARRGGGHH!!!!!!!!!

[Paburo]

i don't see anything argh about it.

only if i'd see it be worn by a male hachi-dan in his eighties.
nahh, obviously is a girly/kiddie tenugui.

would jenny trade for three of those i wonder.

[KhawMengLee]

i have to say sonething about the hello kitty tenegui....AAARRGGGHH!!!!!!!!!

Hmmnnn...looks like I'll have to get a Hello Kitty tenegui and zekken the next time I do jigeiko with you...heehee

[Anarei]

my gosh! hello kitty doing kendo?? wat is the world coming to...

but ya noe, if u were 2 use that tenugui in a match, u might be able 2 win just on the basis of yr opponent laughing his ass off :D

[Hongsermeier]

I think I'll stick with my Snoopy tenugui. :cross_eye

[samurai999]

Originally posted by KhawMengLee


Hmmnnn...looks like I'll have to get a Hello Kitty tenegui and zekken the next time I do jigeiko with you...heehee

KML, are you planning on joining a secret dojo? Or.. Are you on the Sanrio kendo bu? LOL

Tim

[mingshi]

Originally posted by Neil Gendzwill
It's hard to find a place here that will make a pattern with dye the way the Japanese tenugui are done, it's usually silk-screened with ink so you get it only on one side and it doesn't breath there.

It depends on what kind of acrylic ink and medium you are using during screenprinting. If the ink is opaque and the medium is glossy the print-out will look crap... To print on T-shirts and canvas bags I use a fabric medium, which will bleed very well into the fabric without stiffy paints on top. Iron the print-out for 5 minutes and it'll stay even after washing.

Though I don't know anything about dyes... (okay but tie-dye doesn't count) which works the best on Tenugui. Sounds very complicated to do manually with minimal equipments.

... Yet to find a place that sells "tenugui fabric"!!!

p.s. I have been screen-printing almost daily for the past 2 years.
p.p.s. and I hate all the Sanrio products.They are all made in China anyway...:rolleyes:

[Hyaku]

I once saw a Roy Rodgers cowboy men towel here in Japan. Could not get the kid to part with it.

Hyaku

[Hai_hai]

I am just a lowly, non-bogu-wearing beginner and I don't know a lot about tenegui, but this I do know about textile printing. Tenegui are just like bandanas. They are white fabric that have been inked or dyed with a pattern, not silk-screened like t-shirts so that the ink is felt above the surface of the fabric.

Jenny,
Where are my pictures?

[Goyaman]

My favorite guilty-pleasure tenugui is still my "Totoro" tenugui I bought at the studio ghibli store in the basement level of Tokyo station. If only I had bought more...

[Lynn]

totoro tenugui???
ahhhhhh....i so want one!!!
haha....im alittle childish here but i have a weakness for big furry creatures......

oh ya...i went through the links mingshi provided....it's really such a pity that they don't ship internationally......sigh....

speaking of tenuguis, one of my frens actually toyed with the idea of printing pink tenuguis for his club, as in shocking electric pink. wooh....i thought that was kinda a shocker, but i would want one too! i like collecting tenuguis....the more the merrier...

*longs for the totoro tenugui*
basement level of tokyo station u say? im packing my bags now!

[KATSUJIN]

lynn...how could u find shocking pink tenegui to be nice?????
i will just be screaming aaarrgghhh if i see that!!!!

[Curtis]

Tenugui are in fact silk screened. I have a book in Japanese about. However they are not done in the same way as what we are familiar with.

The pattern is cut out of a stiff, thick linen type material. It is placed over the cloth and screened.

If I have time I will get it translated and post the process if anyone is interested. I might even scan a couple pictures out of the book of the process and put them on the web.

The book has pictures of tenugui done for art. I was able to purchase a few of them at the showing.

[KhawMengLee]

but ya noe, if u were 2 use that tenugui in a match, u might be able 2 win just on the basis of yr opponent laughing his ass off

Anarai, my Sensei once walked into a shiai with a guy with a pink "no fear" sticker where to kamon usually is on his Dou. He was trying very hard not to laugh...


KML, are you planning on joining a secret dojo? Or.. Are you on the Sanrio kendo bu? LOL

shhhhhh! about the dojo...or we send Sensei kitty to assasinate you:D

[QUOTE]lynn...how could u find shocking pink tenegui to be nice?????
i will just be screaming aaarrgghhh if i see that!!!![QUOTE]

Haha...hmnnn...I think I'll get Sensei Wong to wear a nice pink hello kitty tenegui if you two meet up at the WKC;).... hohoho...formidable skill coupled with retching cuteness...awwwww:D

[Charlie]

I don't understand the print process myself, but I do know a printer and kendo-ka that USED to have a source for teneguie material (like you said, Neil). I say "used to," it had something to do with leftover material that he could then buy and run out 100 tenegui or something. He made a nice set for Detroit and I still have one of them. I'd love to be able to design my own but they are probably rather expensive, eh?

[Neil Gendzwill]

It's not that they are expensive, it's that you have to get so many of them on a custom run to get a decent price. I don't think it's worth your while to get less than 500 or so.

[Anarei]

actually cartoon character tenugui are really cute.... wat i object to is that they should not be shown to be doing kendo! the incongruity between the cuteness and the idea of serious kendo jus makes me laugh... :D i mean, sensei kitty? noooo.... wat kind of ki'ai would she have man? *shudders*

i see someone's snapped up the tenugui for 12.50... wonder if one of u guys has ordered it? :p

[Anarei]

hmm... KML, either the 'no fear' guy was seriously trying to show his courage (or trying to give the impression of it) or he was using some kind of underhand trick to make yr sensei laugh... :) well, i'd give the guy the benefit of the doubt

[heri0n]

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d34496476
pikachu

[Kent Enfield]

Originally posted by Neil Gendzwill
It's not that they are expensive, it's that you have to get so many of them on a custom run to get a decent price. I don't think it's worth your while to get less than 500 or so. Our club got a run of 100 through koei/bogubag. They were just simple black on white, but even with shipping, they worked out to be less than $5 each. 100 was the smallest batch they'd do by machine. Anything less than that and they would be done by hand, with a correspond jump in price.

[Hai_hai]

Originally posted by Curtis
Tenugui are in fact silk screened. I have a book in Japanese about. However they are not done in the same way as what we are familiar with.

The pattern is cut out of a stiff, thick linen type material. It is placed over the cloth and screened.

If I have time I will get it translated and post the process if anyone is interested. I might even scan a couple pictures out of the book of the process and put them on the web.

The book has pictures of tenugui done for art. I was able to purchase a few of them at the showing.

Actually, I had no idea how tenegui are printed. I just needed to get my name on all topics in the kendo area of the forum. Anyway, that's nice to know. I can go into the tenegui/noren printing bidness.

[Goyaman]

BTW Lynn, the store selling the Totoro tenugui is called Donguri Kyowakoku (tel. 03-5222-7871) and they feature all kinds of things from studio ghibli. The tenugui cost 1,200 yen.

[KATSUJIN]

kml, please dont ask him to wear that....wait...maybe it will help me...my kiai will be boosted....hhehehhe....

[etherknot]

Originally posted by Anarei
actually cartoon character tenugui are really cute.... wat i object to is that they should not be shown to be doing kendo! the incongruity between the cuteness and the idea of serious kendo jus makes me laugh... :D i mean, sensei kitty? noooo.... wat kind of ki'ai would she have man? *shudders*

Aww but a Domokun one would be excellent. I can just hear it's kiai now:
DOMOOOOOOOOOOO*whap*

:D

[Anarei]

*lol* etherknot, maybe you have a point. it would be such a pleasure to imagine striking an overstuffed cartoon character, if u happen to dislike it. i saw a really huge stuffed Barney in a store the other day. think it would make an excellent practice dummy. wonder if he'll still be singing "I love you, you love me" after everyone deals out some pain to our favourite dinosaur :>

[Lynn]

Originally posted by KATSUJIN
lynn...how could u find shocking pink tenegui to be nice?????
i will just be screaming aaarrgghhh if i see that!!!!

hahaha....it's going to be interesting to say the least to see u running arghhhhh from the dojo! but then again, i never said i'll wear it lah. it'll just be nice to have one...one of my seniors also had a bright yellow one! im sure u noticed! that one's rather cool too! :p

anyway, any of u guys know any sites that sell tenugui? i know mingshi posted a few links but they dun do international shipping. i checked ebay but nothing much there as well.....

[Lynn]

ohhh....i just saw your post Goyaman!! thanx man for the additional info....im going to check out studio ghibli website now!
thanx again!!

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Kent Enfield
Our club got a run of 100 through koei/bogubag. They were just simple black on white, but even with shipping, they worked out to be less than $5 each. 100 was the smallest batch they'd do by machine. Anything less than that and they would be done by hand, with a correspond jump in price.

hm! So what was the final cost, Kent, about $500?

[KhawMengLee]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3613635091&category=10826

[Hai_hai]

Hmm, the size of the men is not proportionate with Hello Kitty's huge, out-of-proportion skull.

I don't see what the problem is with this product. Kendo is Japanese. Hello Kitty is Japanese. It only makes sense to combine the two.

[Kent Enfield]

Originally posted by Charlie
hm! So what was the final cost, Kent, about $500? A tad under as I recall. While it was a relatively big expense for our club, 100 tenugui ought to last us about five years. It's not like they go bad.

[KATSUJIN]

:spchless:

OMG!!!! AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

(in response to the hello kitty doll with bogu)

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

:paranoid:

[Paburo]

i bet its a top pick between the gakko kendo girls.

[Tako-kun]

KhawMengLee-- ARRRRGH!!! WHEN DOES THE HURTING STOP!

KATSUJIN-- OMG!!!! AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

(in response to the hello kitty doll with bogu)

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!


Hmm, you two seem to be in some pain; perhaps too much suburi? Perhaps this would help:

http://www.jlist.com/cgi-bin/disp.cgi?img=http://images.jlist.com/c2/kittyvib5.gif&x=500&y=500

You know... for shoulder massage and all... :D

[m_french]

Tako-kun, you kill me! First bunny garnished breakfast entrees and now hello kitty adorned sex toys.....oh sorry, I ment massage aids....If you're ever in SoCal come by the Dojo we'll buy the beer!:beard:

[Hongsermeier]

Tako-kun...I must second that. :cross_eye

[etherknot]

You know... for shoulder massage and all... :D

No no... for aching kendo foot ;)

[Tako-kun]

m_french & Hongsermeier

:) Thanks guys, I'll take you up on that next time I'm down that way. I just started this year with the Vancouver Kendo Club; it's a great group; stop in if you ever come up north.

[m_french]

Tako, I grew up in seattle and as all drunken youth made it to Vancouver often.....Great City, some of us ugly Californians were threatining to head up to the PACNW to keiko with dorky, if we get up that way we'll try to Include Vancouver..... "I'll bring my sticks." you chill the O'Keefes:beard:

[M.K. Kawai]

Tako-kun,

That's a good one :D

If you ever come down here, stop by Gardena JCI on Fridays and buy the beer and the after practice snack at Gardena Bowl. That's where the whole lot of us hang out after practice ends.

MKK