Collection: Japanese Ceremonial Silk Bags

Japanese ceremonial silk knot bags, reimagined from fukuro obi.

Renaras designs and reimagines existing Japanese ceremonial silk into contemporary pieces for daily life — this is our mottainai: the bringing of new imagination into a living tradition. Woven once for moments of significance, carried into the day with the same care that went into its making.

Each knot bag in this collection is cut from a Japanese ceremonial fukuro obi — woven for weddings, tea ceremonies, and formal occasions — and finished at our Amsterdam atelier with a knotted closure that needs no clasp, no hardware, no zip. The obi determines the composition; the cut follows the silk, not the reverse. Brocaded florals, cranes, gold and silver thread, and patterns built into the weave itself: each bag carries the original textile's design language into a hand, into a room, across a city.

Each knot bag is singular. Once the original silk is cut, the composition does not return.

One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.

Questions we are asked

What is a Japanese ceremonial silk knot bag?

A bag cut from a fukuro obi and finished at the Renaras atelier in Amsterdam with a knotted self-closure: no clasp, no hardware, no zip, and no metal touching the silk.

How large is a knot bag?

About 25 × 25 cm with a 10 cm base, which carries a wallet, a phone, a book and a notebook.

How is the bag lined?

Each bag is lined in the obi's own unbleached reverse, so the whole piece is the original silk.

How should the silk be cared for?

Spot clean only. Keep the bag out of rain and prolonged direct sunlight.