New products

Christmas products are available at Beehive gallery、Romantic Notions and Tachi Hair Works

At Beehive galley, there are kokeshi cosmetic pouches, handmade hair accessories including new hair bands made of shibori, Santa on reindeer and cakes which are screen cleaners. There is also Christmas decorations for wall.  Of course, all these products are made of kimono fabric by craftsman in Kyoto, Japan! 

At Romantic Notions, there are kimono teddy bears and cake screen cleaners. I will be adding coin purses and small teddy bears soon. 






 

At Tachi Hair Works, there are new hair accessories and Christmas ornaments.
 





Christmas is only a month away now. I hope Kyo Modern's products will make good Christmas gifts for friends and families. 

Beehive Gallery (Gifts Shop)
Shop1 441-443 King Street
Newtown 2042 NSW 

Romantic Notions (Gifts Shop)
101 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove NSW 2066, Australia

Tachi Hair Works (Hair & Beauty Salon)
Shop 1, 272 Victoria Ave., Chatswood NSW

New products at Tachi Hair Works

I didn't realise the lasts time I updated this blog is more than a month ago.

Oops!

I have received new products and I'm in a process of selling them at shops in Sydney.

So far, a hair salon Tachi Hair Works in Chatswood sells some of the new hair accessories.



I will be dropping off more products at a gift shop Beehive gallery in Newtown and a hair and beauty salon My Hair International in The Rocks sometime this week. And other shops next week.

Apologise for an unclear photo but the products in the photos are a hair tie. This hair tie is made with a ribbon which is made of rayon and acrylic beads. 

It comes in different colours. The one available at Tachi Hair Works is pink. This is almost like wearing kanzashi (traditional Japanese style hair ornament) but it's a hair tie so it's so much easier to wear. Shinning beads definitely makes your hair more stunning.  

The size of the decorations (ribbon & beads) are 11x5cm. The diameter of a elastic band is 9cm. It's handmade by a craftsman in Kyoto.  

More photos of new hair accessories are below:

Garbera hair pin. It comes in blue, pink, red & purple. Handmade with rayon & cotton.

Hair tie with round decorations.  Made of rayon and chirimen,

New products coming soon

I have placed orders of new products from Kyoto, Japan.

This time I'm getting more hair accessories and unusual gifts.  The one in the photo above is actually a PC monitor cleaner! It's made of chirimen (kimono fabric).

I should be receiving the products sometime next week. After that,  I will let you know when and where that will be available to purchase!

New products

New kimono fabric earrings, a wallet and a card holder are now available at Tachi Hair Works in Chatswood. 

Check out the basket on the counter. 

I have restocked teddy bears, hair clips and　a handmade silk pouch!

Tachi Hair Works

272 Victoria Ave
CHATSWOOD NSW ,2067

It's on a way

New Handmade Tomesode (formal kimono) glasses cases are finally on the way from Japan!

I will be selling them at Beehive gallery in Newtown,  and My Hair International in The Rocks , Romatic Notions in Lane Cove and possibly at other shops.

I will also sell some of them at the next general market at Kirribilli market. This time, I'm sharing a stall with friends who sells homewares from Fukushima, Japan!  I will post more information about it closer to the date.

New Colours

I have added purple and white mini hair clips at My Hair International and Beehive Gallery. Please check it out!

I'm in a process of getting more of handmade Tomesode glasses/mobile phone case from Kyoto. A lady who makes this product is getting bit old so she works slowly.

This products went very well last year so I can't wait to get some more! But for now, I have to be patient....!

New Products

New stocks from Kyoto finally arrived!

I now have more handmade Kimono pouches, glasses/mobile phone cases and rings.

The rings have wires inside so you can change the size. You can wear it as a ring, hair tie or tie it around wherever you like!

New products will be available at Kirribilli market next Saturday (26th) and Beehive gallery in Newtown soon.

Some of the pouches are already available at Beehive Gallery and Romantic Notions in Lane Cove so please check it out!

New shelf

I changed the location of my products at Beehive Gallery.

I moved  my products to a different shelf which was opposite to where I used to use. I have added more hair accessories, teddy bear and dog straps、chirimen cardholder and  Kanzashi.

I also added the explanation  of what Nishihin silk is so feel free to pick it up. I left about 6 copies. 

Please droop into the shop when you are in Newtown, Sydney!

Beehive Gallery

Shop1 441-443 King Street
Newtown 2042 NSW
Australia

Handmade brooch

One of my supplier in Japan is a talented artist Junko.

She makes lovely bag/mobile phone charms, obi charms , brooch, obi and hair accessories.  She holds a stall at handicraft market in  Kamigamo shrine,  Kyoto. She is there almost every month.

Kyo Modern sells some of her brooch. Snowflakes and Sakura petal brooches are made of epoxy resin with swarovski rhinestone inside. I love the rhinestone. It adds an accent in a brooch. 


You can purchase theses brooches at Beehive Gallery in Newtown. If you are not in Sydney, you can purchase it on my website. 


Theses products are supposedly a obi charm with hooks but Junko used a safety pin to make a brooch for me. 


I wanted to explain this brooch is pretty thick. In the photo on right, hopefully you can see how thick it is. The brooch is about 1.8cm heights (including a pin) from the side so it's pretty big!
 
It will definitely adds accent on your bag, shawls, hat, or where ever you want to put on.


I put a snowflake brooch on my bag. It makes cold weather enjoyable!

They are here!

Yay! Kanzashi is finally here.

I'll be dropping them off at beauty salons and will sell it at next Kirribilli market if I can get a spot.

I will let you know once Kanzashi is definitely available at salons!

Please keep eye on the blog or my facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kyo-Modern/123458921000537

Kanzashi

After catching a really bad flu from and overdosing paracetamol which caused great issues with my health, I'm finally recovering.

I can't believe I was sick for a week! All those things I was meant to get it done last week obviously haven't been done...

Anyway, I should catch up with my work and social life now!

I'm in a process of getting Kanzashi from Kyoto.  Kanzashi is a hair accessory worn with kimono.  They are available in many different designs for different occasions.

I could get a very traditional one which is made of expensive piece of wood, covered with lacquer and gold flakes but that would be very expensive and you can only wear it  for very formal occasions.

Instead, I'm getting more simply designed ones,  so that you could wear it with casual outfit. I'm sure it will be suitable for formal occasions too.

I should get them early next month so I will let you know when I have it available for sale!

New products

Just added new Gamaguchi style pouch/bag made of Nishijin silk and Chirimen Gamaguchi purse on my web. There are more to come.

I should have realised long time ago that I'm not very good with designing a website... Somehow it takes forever.

All the new products will be available at my stall at Kirribilli market in Sydney on the 28th of May.

Gamaguchi

Notice Kyo Modern offers many "Gamaguchi" purse.

Gama means "toad" and Guchi mean "mouth". So the theory is, a purse looks like a toad with a mouth opened!

 In Japanese, both toads and frogs are described as "Kaeru". They believed to bring good luck.

The reason why frogs are suppose to bring luck is Kaeru can be interpreted as "Return".  They are 2 different Kanji but pronunciation is the same.

When you go to Japan, you will see numbers of frog ornament with the titles like "Buji Kaeru" (safe return), "Okane ga Kaeru" (money will return", "Usemono Kaeru" (Lost items will return) and so on.

 The original Gamaguchi is a purse for coins only however Kyo Modern's Gamaguch has outside and inside pockets and divider for cards and notes!

I'm getting more of it in Kyoto next week so please check my website early May for informaiton of new Gamaguchi. I will be in Japan for bit over 2 weeks.

(Photo: Nishijin Silk Gamaguchi Purse. Available for sale on Kyo Modern's website)

New Product

 I just came back from Melbourne trip. I had a fantastic time there with friends and it was very nice of them to worry about Japan earthquake.


Fukushima nuclear power plants are largely under control so I'm not too worried about it however people who have been evacuated are now facing serious issues of not having enough support.

They still don't have enough access to gas, electricity, water, food and medicine.

As I mentioned in previous blog and twitter, there is only so much I can do from here.  So I will keep doing my best with running Kyo Modern so that I can  make more donations to Japan!

From Australia, you can donate through Red Cross or Yahoo Japan.  Japanese communities, including take away stores are raising money for the earthquake victims as well.

As for what's new with  Kyo Modern, I started selling handmade Temari (Japanese style thread ball). I only uploaded one Temari so far but I will be uploading more soon!

http://sites.google.com/site/kyomodern/

Personalise your phone or bag with "Mini Chirimen Teddy Bear"

Mini Chirimen Teddy Bear Strap has been one of the best seller of Kyo Modern. They are made of Chirimen fabric.

I'm happy to see them becoming popular despite te fact that people in Australia don't often buy bag or mobile phone charms. I guess they are too cute to ignore!

Mobile phone charms are so popular in Japan. You will see young girls mobile phones with HEAPS of charms to the point that you can't really see a mobile phone anymore!

In fact it is very difficult to find a person whose mobile phone doesn't have any charms in Japan. Everyone wants to personalise their phone with something that shows their personality.

I hope Kyo Modern's straps will contribute a culture of using mobile phone charms in Australia.

This product is now available for retail purchase on my site.

For retailers, please visit:  http://kyomodern.supplierhaven.com.au/2011/03/10/chirimen-mini-teddy-bear-straps/

New Trend

 

I met some of my suppliers while I was back in  Kyoto and they told me the trend in Japanese style accessories are keep changing.

These days, both buyer and suppliers are bored of "typical Japanese patterns". For example, those flower patterned fabrics.  So people are looking for either retro patterns from Taisho era(1911-1925) or modern patterns and colours.

I think those modern patterns are often based on pretty bright colours. And patterns on fabric is not neccesarry Japanesey..for instance, penguins, ribbons and matryoshka.

So here I am trying out new products with new patterns..... I'll do my best to upload them on my website during next week!


(Photo: New Chirimen Gamaguchi, White Dotty)

New Arrival at Beehive gallery in Newtown

Just dropped off the following items at Beehive Gallery in Newtown

Blue and Purple Teddy bears

More Japanese patterned hair scrunchies

Gamaguchi Purse, cardholders , earrings and necklace made of Nishijin fabric(gorgeous silk from Kyoto)

Shibori Obi pocuhes

Beehive is located on

Shop1 441-443 King Street
Newtown 2042 NSW

http://beehivegallery.com.au/

Please look for a white shelf near the window with 3 Teddy bears! It will have my business card on it too.(It's under the name of Reiko)