Usagi no mimi musubi tutorial

I want to show you a very cute Obi musubi tutorial this time.
It´s called ウサギの耳 (usagi no mimi) which means rabbit ears ♥

Actually you use a Nagoya Obi and wear this kind of musubi with Komon kimono but the problem is that I´ve no Nagoya Obi and so I had to use one of my Fukuro Obi. A part of Nagoya Obi is always already folded and that makes it easier to tie though before you start tying Fukuro Obi you have to fold it in half by yourself.

I will also use two important words for this tutorial:

Tare and Tesaki

However ... now lets start with the things you need:

1st: Fukuro Obi (actually a Nagoya Obi!)
2nd: Obi ita
3rd: Obi makura
4th: two Koshihimo
5th: Obijime
6th: Obiage



1st step: Since I use a Fukuro Obi I have to fold up around 75% in half first:

2nd step: take the Obi ita, tie it around your waist and close it on your back:

3rd step: the open part of tesaki has to be on the left side of your shoulder:

4st step: start to wrap it around ....

5th step: wrap it again

6th-7th step: in the end I had to wrap it around 3 times until I saw the pattern of the Obi only

8th step: after this fold the tare like you can see here

9th step: take your first Koshihimo (tesaki and tare are now above)

10th step:  bring the Koshihimo to the front and make a loop

11th step: tuck the loop underneath your Obi

12th step: the tare part is now "hanging" down

13th step: now we want to build the rabbit ears! Take the tesaki from above and fold it down

14th step: then fold the right part up like you can see on the following picture

that are already the rabbit ears ♥

15th step: use now the second Koshihimo and slide it over the rabbit ears

16th step: then bring the Koshihimo to the front, make a loop and tuck it underneath the Obi.
Your rabbit ears are ready!

17th step: Time to use the Obimakura and Obiage

18th step: put the Obiage over the Obimakura

19th step: fold the tare part up and put the Obimakura underneath the Obi. The flat part of the Obimakura touches your back.

Bring the strings of the Obimakura to the front, tie and then tuck them underneath the Obi. You can see how you have to tie the Obiage in my previous tutorial, so I skip this part now!


20th step: now the final steps ... tuck up the tare and then put the Obijime on the center part of Tare, bring the Obijime to the front and tie it (you can see how to do it in my previous tutorial!)

the end of o-taiko has to have the same length like your forefinger:

FINISHED!

Tateya musubi tutorial (+ Obiage and Obijime) 2nd part

Here is the second and final part of my Tateya musubi tutorial. Let´s continue:



take the other Koshihimo and then through the back side



bind the strings together



the same on the right side



tighten the Koshihimo strings



put the loose strings like shown in the picture


Of course you also have to tie the Obimakura on the front side:





after the tying, put the ribbon behind the Obi layers



the Obiage can stay like this for a while. We will tie it correctly later.



now all is tighten =D



take the small folded part from above over the middle part,
then take your Obijime ...



now make a fold like shown in the picture,
then the Obijime through the folded part



the Obijime strings around to the front part ...



let´s tie the Objime: make a loop on the right side,
then the left string through the loop



then under ... and the string through the left small loop



and after that you have this knot =D



one string under, one up ... done!


Let´s go on with the Obiage tying: fold 1/3 on both sides





then fold it in half, the same on the other side ...



just make a knot, take the red marked part ...



make a loop with the red part, two fingers inside the loop



the blue marked part through the red marked loop



then tighten ... the small ends behind the obi layers ...



... now all is done! =D

Sorry again for my bad English description, but I hope the pictures will help you.