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What is Somebana
Somebana (染め花 ) in Japanese means the art of making fabric flowers using special dyes and processed pure silk, cotton, and sometime other fabric.
Each part of these sophisticated flowers is handmade and require dedicated tools, technical skills and knowledge to transform fine fabric into unique, aesthetically attractive arrangements.
With Somebana there is no limit to design and replicate unique and rare flowers, breaking free of the stereotypical marketing options.
Somebana might become your unique and fascinating hobby, enabling you to create stunning gifts and decorations for your own home.
Somebana Technique
Inspiration
Replicating the details in fabrics
Studying the nature
An artist finds beautiful, unusual or even popular flower and is inspired to save the beauty in still craft to enjoy it indefinitely
Studying the nature
Replicating the details in fabrics
Studying the nature
The flower is analyzed and drafted to create a templates to be used later for replication
Replicating the details in fabrics
Replicating the details in fabrics
Replicating the details in fabrics
Various types of natural fabric are used to create flower's parts
Dying and shaping
Creating the Still Art
Replicating the details in fabrics
Once cut out of specially treated fabric, the flower parts are treated by high quality dyes to reproduce vibrant natural colors. Then the parts are shaped in an artistic way, using a hot ironing process. This is the crucial step requiring specific equipment and lots of skills developed with extensive experience.
Creating the Still Art
Creating the Still Art
Creating the Still Art
Manual assembly of a flower allows artist to achieve desired shape, density and expression. The flowers might look very naturally if reproduced in different stages of blooming. Every Somebana master has its unique style and technique secrets, sharing them however with the disciples.
