The Nishiki-Hi — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Table Runner, Floral in Vermilion and Silver

Hi-iro. The vermilion of ritual fire. The orange-red of lacquered shrine gates, of the Torii that marks the threshold between the ordinary and the sacred — woven here across silk that responds to candlelight.

A Japanese ceremonial silk table runner, cut from a single obi and finished at the Renaras atelier in Amsterdam.

The ground is dyed in hi-iro, warmer than pure red, more alive than orange. Across this living ground, large-scale hana floral motifs are woven in raised metallic silver Nishijin thread, their pale lustre set against the warm vermilion in a contrast of temperature and material that is the hallmark of the finest Kyoto ceremonial weaving. The silver thread is wound around a silk core in the kinran technique, giving it flexibility and lustre that flat metal thread cannot achieve. The vermilion gives the composition its temperature. The silver gives it its bloom.

A runner for a celebration, the vermilion brocade woven for exactly that and asking for nothing quieter.

The runner is lined in undyed silk to protect the face. 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.