Notes to self - kamon survey

[gurdymonkey]

Pink bits have been dyed and are drip drying in the shower. Depending on how they look together dry, I may or may not overdye the hitoe a darker green.

Contemplating ways to render a laurel wreath and give it a Japanese flair, if that's at all possible.

http://www.tozandoshop.com/v/vspfiles/kamon/plant2.html Wari daki ashi, some of the daki ine,

http://www.tozandoshop.com/v/vspfiles/kamon/plant4.html Outer ring on the Agari Fujini koky and the Fujiwani Kikyou. (The wreath bit is actually wisteria.)

http://www.tozandoshop.com/v/vspfiles/kamon/plant6.html, not so much but isn't the Dakihagi pretty?

http://www.tozandoshop.com/v/vspfiles/kamon/plant9.html Daikobotan.

http://www.tozandoshop.com/v/vspfiles/kamon/plant12.html Sendai Sasa leaves, bamboo stems and birds. Pretty!

Comments

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this ;)

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Actually, the more I looked at the wreath variants, the more I'm thinking a laurel wreath that looks like a laurel wreath will be just fine.

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Duly noted.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Mon (and other decorative motifs) tend to give certain plants a specific stylized representation. Some of those examples will read "wisteria" to a Japanese eye, even if we think it looks kinda-sorta like a laurel wreath. Which doesn't mean it wasn't a useful exercise. Besides, that set of pages is a nice visual reference.

It was nice seeing examples of plant wreaths with other things inside them - one could use that precedent to create some nice laurel-plus textile designs.

[danabren.livejournal.com]

I had a devil of a time trying to find any wreath-y looking plants, these pages look familiar in a sort of "hey, look, mon!" way, but man, I really found very very little when looking on my own.

Is your permanent "cloak" under control, project-wise?