Custom or specialty Tenugui

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How much do you think people would pay for them. My friend works in the NYC Garment district as a seamstress and gets the most amazing Japanese cotton fabric. You've gotta see and feel it. Well she was interested in cutting hemming and selling Tenugui. Not just the generic ones that say a phrase in Kanji.. more like custom cut water color looking designs.. great stuff.. I'm Just wondering what it would go for as a fair price..



thanks!

[joekc6nlx]

As long as the fabric is 100% cotton and colorfast, I think it could be sold for around $5.50 each. Of course, she should base the price on the cost of the fabric, plus her time in cutting it to size and hemming the top and bottom.

Even so, that's my opinion on price.

[Kyuuketsuki]

Yea, I agree with joe.

Even if it is the best tenugi ever made, it shall not cost (or at least I would not pay) over 10 bucks.
Good luck, post some pics of them, maybe I'll buy one

[Infinity]

i have recently sold some original tenugi. i bought the fabric from japan - 100% cotton and correct width - and hand painted some images from my watercolour pictures.
i charge $10AUD and people are happy to pay that with orders for more.
they are all different and unique.
my fellow kendoka seem to like the idea of having original artwork no one else owns.

[Faustus]

I would say $10 (U.S.) or under, personally. For some really fantastic or unique tenugi, I might pay around $10, but then the kendo club I've recently joined has given me three, and I haven't even been there a month yet. I guess it would depend on the fabric and aesthetics- if I saw a design I really liked, then I'd be willing to pay more. I'd be hard pressed to spend more than $10, though.

[ImagoX]

Yeah, I'd pay up to $10 (more or less shipped), IF:

*It had a really unique look... maybe some calligraphy on top of that watercolor design you mentioned

* It was soft but also had a bit of "tooth" to the fabric, so that the whole thing doesn't slither off your head when you take your hands away and/or pull on your men

* It is ABSORBANT... In the summer I can ring out my favorite one like a sponge, and the whole point os to pad your head AND to keep the sweat out of your eyes...

Let meknow if/when she gets these marketed and I might buy a few to use and to take to tournaments as gifts.

[KevinF]

I spoke to e-bogu the other day, and I was told that the minimum order was 300 tenugui for over 900 USD. If anyone can produce good tenugui here with custom designs, I think they would have a good market (through distributors, kendo shops, ebay, and privately).

Please keep us updated about this!

[kuzu70]

I usually receive tenugui as gifts and such. I don't think I ever actually paid for a tenugui out of pocket.

[Keith Hong]

On my recent trip to Tokyo, I picked up a couple of tenegui I thought were nice.
One I picked up at Ito-ya, a huge stationery store. It's light blue with white dots all over it.
The other one I picked at Fujiya, a store taht specializes in tenegui dyed the traditional way, in Asakusa. Its got a huge fish on it in red.
Paid about ten dollars for each, I'm not sure.

[634]

I spoke to e-bogu the other day, and I was told that the minimum order was 300 tenugui for over 900 USD. If anyone can produce good tenugui here with custom designs, I think they would have a good market (through distributors, kendo shops, ebay, and privately).

Please keep us updated about this!
Hi KevinF,
did you ask the price for double side printing or single?

[rckenshi]

I spoke to e-bogu the other day, and I was told that the minimum order was 300 tenugui for over 900 USD.!
I wonder if Kirsty would consider designing one for our dojo. We could sell them as a fundraiser. I bet at either $7.50 each (or 3 for $20) we would break even pretty quickly, and realize a decent profit eventually.

What do you think Kirsty?

[armourer]

Definitely a reasonable price would be $10 or lower, but Eguchi do good price for custom Tenegui.

[Random]

I would pay 10$ for a tenugui with bacon on it. ^_^

[KevinF]

Hey 634,

No, I didn't ask about double sided ones - I assumed they were talking about single sided ones - I dropped my line of questioning when I heard the price for the minimum number - it's a bit outside what our small dojo can do right now...