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Chichibu Hogushi Nassen (Clothes) cloth futon cover cushion cover main producing districts:Chichibu History and Features Chichibu Nassen (print) from the latter half of Edo era (1603-1867) to Meiji era (1868-1912) were developed as home clothes with simple color using natural dye. Chichibu Nassen has its roots in the traditional method of producing Chichibu textiles. A characteristic of it is Hogushi (unbinding) patterns on the warps. First a patterned paper is placed by hand on the warps, then the warps are dyed with a brush soaked in dye and one color is put on top of another. This method is called "Hogushi Nassen" because workers weave temporarily unbinding the woven wefts. The method of Hogushi Nassen grew rapidly from the Shigoki Nassen method to the Tateito (the warps) Nassen method and the Seikei (the arranging warps) Nassen method. Characteristic of it is a kind of splashed pattern on the warps as well as the original deep tone of colors being blended with the color of the wefts.