The Akane-Ito — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Table Runner, Tonal Weave in Madder Red

Akane-ito. The thread of madder root. The colour the Japanese textile tradition draws from the rubia plant — slow, deep, never industrial — held here in a structured tonal weave.

The runner is drawn from a Japanese ceremonial silk obi — a double-faced silk carrying a structured tonal weave in akane madder red, the colour shifting between depth and warmth depending on the hour. The structure is built into the warp and weft — pattern and silk inseparable. The akane gives the composition its grounded warmth. The structure gives it its quiet.

A runner for the table that wants one colour and nothing else: madder red, woven, left alone.

Reversible double-faced silk. No metal touches the visible silk.

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.

Pair with placemats from the same collection.

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