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Hello. I’m Kayaba from the ApparelX Trend Blog.
Today, I’d like to introduce Nakano Meriyasu’s Craft Fur, which is now available for purchase on ApparelX.
Maker page: https://www.apparelx.jp/search.php?maker=165
Nakano Meriyasu Kogyo Co., Ltd. is a faux fur maker founded in 1973 in Hashimoto City, Wakayama Prefecture (the Koyaguchi Town production area).
Their products are called "Craft Fur," and high-quality fur textile materials are offered. This area has long been active in the pile industry, and their products are created from nature and inherited artisan skills, ensuring reliable quality.
Among the Koyaguchi Town production area, Nakano Meriyasu Kogyo also puts effort into sharing the region’s traditions and techniques, as well as producing original fur products and sharing them on social media.
The website also conveys the appeal of the production area, so please take a look.
Nakano Meriyasu Kogyo website→https://www.e-nakano.net/
Koyaguchi Pile is a traditional textile from the area centered on the former Koyaguchi Town in Wakayama Prefecture (now Koyaguchi Town, Hashimoto City) and the surrounding areas (Hashimoto City, Kudoyama Town, and Katsuragi Town), and it is characterized by offering a wide variety of textiles.
Its history as a production area began with cotton textiles in the Edo period.The history of Koyaguchi Pile began in the early Meiji period, taking advantage of a background in which sericulture and weaving were thriving, when Mr. Yasusuke Maeda devised the method for a special woven fabric called "Saori". In the Taisho period, seal weaving was developed, and in the Showa period it grew alongside the development of synthetic fibers. Even today, efforts continue toward developing new applications.
What Is Saori? — Saori is a chenille fabric that originated in Europe, including the Czech Republic and Germany, and was brought to Japan in the early Meiji period. Yasusuke Maeda, who was born in Koyaguchi, Wakayama Prefecture, somehow wanted to make this fabric and, after much effort, devised a machine from scratch and created Japan’s unique Saori fabric. Saori is a very labor-intensive and painstaking fabric that involves cutting a woven fabric once along the warp direction to make mohair yarn, then weaving this mohair yarn again as the weft thread to reproduce the pattern. Saori, which was invented around 1877, was exported overseas as tablecloths and curtains from the Meiji period through the Taisho period and the early Showa period, where it was well received.
https://www.nogami-pile.com/blank-3
※ "Koyaguchi Pile" is registered as a regional collective trademark.
For the fur part, acrylic and modacrylic, which have the closest texture to animal hair among synthetic fibers, are used.
Please find the quoted text below.
Polyacrylonitrile-based synthetic fibers are classified into "acrylic" and "modacrylic". Those containing 85% or more acrylonitrile by mass are "acrylic," and those containing 35% to 85% are "modacrylic." "Modacrylic" has excellent flame resistance because vinyl chloride or vinylidene chloride is copolymerized, and it is used for flame-retardant products (flame-retardant fabrics, blankets, carpets, curtains, etc.) and wigs.
Source— Japan Chemical Fibers Association website
Since Nakano Meriyasu Kogyo’s Craft Fur has the names of the imitated fur types written on it, it makes it easy to tell what kind of craft fur each product is from the product name.
This piece, which imitates Russian sable (a small animal in the weasel family), also has an outstanding hand feel.
This 2-tone dyed sheep boa fleece style has depth in its color and gives off a vintage-like atmosphere.
This light mouton type offers the vivid color development and rich color variations unique to synthetic fibers.
There is also a top-grade fur [Blue Fox] type. You will be amazed by its smooth and soft texture.
There are many other types of craft fur as well, so please take a look from the maker page.
Thank you for your continued support.
