Airing out

[unixronin]

Another batch of kimono, haori and doboku just went into the dryer to air out, plus my hakama.  Found one more damaged kimono, too, sad to say;  but five damaged out of probably close to a hundred isn't bad.  I suppose after we're done, we'll have to actually maker a formal inventory and photograph everything for documentation.  Some of these pieces are ... wow.

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[jilara.livejournal.com]

It was actually $1000 for a bale, and we had bought a couple "shares" of the original bale. Then we took the plunge. :-)

Texuba is actually (maybe) still in business. I bought a "share" in an obi bale that Ruby was eliminating after she went out of business, from her private stash of obi bales, and got some great obi. I thought that was the end of it. And then a couple years went by, and I got a notice of a special sale/show where she'd rented a hall. I drove down to Torrance for it. Seems she was buying by the piece, now, and selling individually-priced kimono. She went through an expansion phase with shows twice a year in the Los Angeles area and San Francisco. Then the supply got irregular, even by individual pieces in Japan, and the SF show was dropped, a couple times. Prices started a very steady climb toward the clouds. The last SF show was grim in terms of stock, and she was talking about retiring again. Everything was discounted, which meant you could almost afford them. But the days of the amazing bales are long gone...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Eek. I'd forgotten it was that much....