Japanese Designers Use Digital Design For Kimono.

The traditional way of making kimono is the use of templates, brushes and a lot of handwork. But recently, the new generation kimono designer Tang Gu Yan began to use computers and inkjet printers in the production of kimono, adding new vitality to this ancient fashion art.

Tang Gu used computers to design and make kimono fabrics in Kyoto. The kimono can be sold on the Internet. The whole procedure is quite different from traditional kimono production methods.

The computer pattern designed by Tang Gu is very different from the traditional flower and bird pattern of kimono. She said, "using computer to design and dress, this part is completely digitalized.

The data will be sent to the printing and dyeing business in Kyoto, which is also digitalized.

Although compared with the traditional way, the digital and kimono production method has the advantages of low cost and high efficiency, but it also faces a difficult problem. That is, the actual color of kimono is still different from that of the printer.

But in order to save costs and time, designers still don't want to give up computers and printers.

The cumbersome and trivial processes of traditional production methods also make the kimono price tens of thousands of dollars, which is beyond expectation.

Tang said that many Japanese women never wore kimono because of the high price and few opportunities to wear.

If the price is reasonable, the elegant kimono will surely be favored by them.

In the past twenty years, the kimono market in Japan has been declining. Tang Gu hopes that the way of digital kimono design and production that can be respected by herself can reverse this situation, and let more Japanese women wear kimono to show the charm of traditional culture.