The Hisui-Mandara — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Table Runner, Karakusa Mandala in Jade Green and Gold

Hisui. The jade of imperial fortune. The colour most revered in East Asian cultures as the embodiment of virtue, longevity and imperial authority — woven here in silk and heavy gold.

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

The ground is dyed in hisui-iro deep celadon. Against it, symmetrical karakusa arabesque motifs and geometric mandala compositions are woven in heavy kinran gold thread — wound around a silk core to produce a thread with depth and a lustre that catches candlelight from every angle. At the mandala intersections, the gold thread is densest, creating a raised tactile surface that reads as almost three-dimensional under raking light. The runner is reversible — a second complete silk surface on the reverse. The jade gives the composition its calm. The gold gives it its warmth.

A runner for a table of green and brass, the karakusa scroll turning slowly under the glasses.

Reversible silk construction. 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.