Camellia is one of my favorite flower and is often used as a motif in Japanese traditional patterns. This is why I fell in love with this book cover at first sight.
But what is more interesting is the material. This book cover is made of cloth that was originally for fusuma, or slidable partitions used in Japanese traditional houses. (The pictures on the fusuma article in Wikipedia will help you understand what it is like.)
You can find this kind of products at Network Gallery Nawrap (in Japanese, ねっとわーくぎゃらりー・ならっぷ）, which is an antenna shop run by Maruyama Sen'i Corporation in Nara prefecture. According to Nawrap's website (Japanese only), the company was established as former Maruyama Shouten in 1930 and had been specialized in manufacture of mosquito net. But it ceased mosquito net production due to decrease in demand of it and started, as new company Maruyama Sen'i Sangyo（丸山繊維株式会社）, to make lawn, or finely woven cloth for use in farms to cover and protect crops, and other kinds of cloth.
And now, the company says it set up the Nawrap shop because the people in the company have been more and more eager to create various new products with Nara mosquito net by using the manufacturing techniques it developed in their history, so ordinary people can feel the comfortable and gentle touch of Nara's traditional mosquito net in their daily life.
I asked Narap about the fusuma cloth product by email, and then Mr. Maruyama, the president of the company, replied that the company does not engage in manufacture of fusuma cloth, but in Nara, fusuma cloth has been manufactured since the late 1960s. (I really appreciate his kind response to my email!) That's why the company can produce goods using fusuma cloth like this, as well as mosquito net.
And now, the company says it set up the Nawrap shop because the people in the company have been more and more eager to create various new products with Nara mosquito net by using the manufacturing techniques it developed in their history, so ordinary people can feel the comfortable and gentle touch of Nara's traditional mosquito net in their daily life.
I asked Narap about the fusuma cloth product by email, and then Mr. Maruyama, the president of the company, replied that the company does not engage in manufacture of fusuma cloth, but in Nara, fusuma cloth has been manufactured since the late 1960s. (I really appreciate his kind response to my email!) That's why the company can produce goods using fusuma cloth like this, as well as mosquito net.
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