Japanese Ceremonial Silk Knot Bag – The Yamamichi, Chevron and Kikkō Damask in Ivory and Scarlet

Yamamichi. The mountain path that cuts across the field. A bold scarlet and gold chevron drawn diagonally across an ivory tone-on-tone damask of hexagonal lattice and small flowers.

The silk is warm ivory cream, heavily brocaded in a white-on-white damask of small florals set inside a kikkō hexagonal grid. Cutting across the field, a band of bold chevron stripes runs in vivid scarlet, marigold yellow, sky blue, and soft gold — an architectural seam joining two registers of cloth. The lower body is fine and quiet; the chevron is graphic and decisive. Gold thread outlines the bright stripes and emerges along the damask in low light.

A bag for confident afternoons — a tailored coat, an opening at a gallery, a long drive home through a city you love.

The silk is the original obi face, designed and finished into a knot bag at the Renaras atelier. Knotted self-closure, silk lining. No metal touches the silk. No clasp, no hardware, no zip.

Renaras: Japanese ceremonial silk, reimagined for daily life.

Each piece arrives with its own passport from the atelier — a small handmade record of the silk's first life and its transformation, signed and dated in Amsterdam.

Material: Japanese ceremonial silk, fukuro obi
Construction: Knotted self-closure, silk lining, no metal contact
Care: Dry clean or spot clean.
Origin: Japanese ceremonial silk, designed and finished at the Renaras atelier, Netherlands.

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