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Yamamura Ajiro Shades

£9600

Size Guide

A Tube shade is roughly the same height as Diameter, and a Shallow Drum shade is about half as high as the diameter.

Please see the full size guide here

Returns and Refunds

Items that are made for you cannot be returned. Please email us (info@sansho.com) with any queries before ordering!

Full Refund & Return policy here

US Finial/Harp fittings

If you would like a finial fitting for a harp, please let us know, they generally cost only £5-£8.

Shades up to and including 12"diameter have a final fitting, 14" diameter shades and up will come with a spider for use with a harp.

We do not supply harps and our shades will not come with the harp.

Using this fabric for lighting shows off the intricate skill of Yamamura san. The gradations in colour and the deep soft indigos can be admired in all their detail. This makes a charming desk or bedside lamp shade.

  • 6 inch diameter and 6 inch height
  • 100% Kasuri dyed cotton, from the Yamamura workshop in the famous town of Kurume, Kyūshū
  • Fabric woven in Japan, shade made in the UK

Meet the Maker:

Yamamura Orimono

The Yamamura family were the last to still weave traditional 100% natural indigo cotton kasuri (ikat) on Kyushu island. This style of weaving was used to create everyday work clothes as well as some casual kimono, but now it is a dying art. Yamamura san does everything from processing the indigo, to dying the yarns, working out the pattern and weaving.

Indigo was traditionally used because it was believed to be a natural insect repellent. Kasuri weaving uses one yarn dyed into multiple colours to create the pattern, so the finished fabric is also thin and lightweight - perfect for the Japanese climate.

Unfortunately, now the Yamamura's have retired and we will no longer be able to find such a rich blue cottton.

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