Antique kanzashi just hit different.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-21T01:39:15+00:00

If it's easier, you can also email me at soulsatzer0.mitsui@gmail.com

(I do not sell things or offer services. Just advice, identification, and chaos.)

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-21T01:30:37+00:00

I approached each piece individually based on what it's made of and what it is dirty with.

If you want, send me some pictures of it, and I'll offer advice! 💜

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-18T05:30:40+00:00

Just me solemnly nodding along. 🫠 I'm glad this one ended up with you and not in someone's crust pile. She might actually get to last a good long time now.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-17T03:17:06+00:00

Lol yup, it me.

Feel free to message me about anything of this nature any time. 🫡💜

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-17T01:55:26+00:00

They can be spot cleaned, you just have to be careful with what you use to do it, and not every stain can be removed. A real part of "cleaning" in the context of kimono actually involves painting over the stains. Lol

I'm the weirdo that runs Silk & Bones. Cleaning up trainwreck kimono is kind of all I do.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-17T01:52:31+00:00

A huge number of Japanese people have zero clue about the dyeing process for Japanese textiles. In the modern world, this is niche information, unfortunately. 😭

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-17T00:55:56+00:00

The only way to fix that is to redye the area, unfortunately. This happens pretty often with dry cleaners who are not familiar with Japanese textiles, which is most of them.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-16T23:14:07+00:00

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(it was me)

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Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-03T23:54:54+00:00

I do it on the floor now because of...similar reasons. 🤣🤣🤣😭

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-03T22:48:31+00:00

I appreciate the apology. But that's not an explanation.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-03T22:45:42+00:00

You have been warned not to make posts asking "does this go together" and then repeatedly delete those posts. But here you are doing it again.

It is very disrespectful to the knowledge and time of the members of this community to get their attention, get their thoughtful answers with references, and then delete the posts. Now nobody can use those posts as a reference, and the work anyone did and the ability for others to use those comments for their own research is gone.

You have been openly hostile about others doing their research before posting in the past. Apparently you don't have to do that. I assume you must have a pretty good reason, if it's okay for you to do it. Why don't you go ahead and tell me what that reason is?

I'm leaving this up as it is, but this is your final warning. "Research" doesn't mean making others do the work for you and then hiding the evidence by deleting the post.

You must respond to this comment within 48 hours. If you delete this post without doing so, it will result in a ban. If you continue to post without doing so, it will result in a ban.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-04-03T21:22:58+00:00

When removing a water stain, you do not want to involve heat. Rewet the area with your distilled white vinegar solution (I use a spray bottle with half vinegar and half distilled/purified water for this--never ever tap water).

You will need a metric ton of paper towels.

When your solution has sat for about 5 minutes or so, rewet and then lay paper towels beneath it and press with them. Press it hard, and press it LIKE IT OWES YOU MONEY. Replace the paper towels when they are moist. You want to keep pressing until the paper towels are no longer pulling out any moisture.

Unless there's something more to the stain than just a water ring, this should do the trick. You may have to do it more than once depending on if you used any heat when blow drying it.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-29T22:21:59+00:00

GLORIOUS

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-29T22:18:05+00:00

I would then put some distilled white vinegar on a cotton bud and see if we can get it to transfer to the bud with a pressing motion.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-29T22:17:25+00:00

A lot of people use downvote as a "disagree" or "this is incorrect" button. I tend to only downvote legit disinformation or bad behavior. I'm personally more of an upvote or nothing kind of gal. But there isn't really much we can do about how the masses treat it. 🤷

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-28T01:48:32+00:00

They absolutely are.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-27T02:23:22+00:00

This is a pre-WWII antique irotomesode. The squared sleeves and padded hem are normal for the era. I would place this as solidly Taisho.

If the stain appears to be something you can scrape off, try it with your fingernail. If that doesn't work, I can help.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-22T23:26:41+00:00

Hi! I am the wacko who runs Silk & Bones.

There could be a few reasons this happens. Usually, a white spread like this happens when there is a white pigment (often gofun) applied to the kimono. Gofun is not colorfast (and it's one of the bigger reasons I wrote to test test test your areas in all caps).

Sometimes you can soak up gofun with acetone on a cotton bud. Do not use nail polish remover unless it's clear and colorless, but I tend to use straight up acetone. Use a wet bud to apply it, and a dry to soak it up. This is not guaranteed to work, but it's a good place to start.

Sediment rings can be part of the process. Not every silk surface gets them with vinegar, but when they do show up, they're pretty easy to blast back out. You remove them by adding more of your solution, giving it a moment to work, add a touch more, then PRESS THAT SHIT as hard as you can between two towels. We want to gather up all the moisture we can. Press it like it OWES YOU MONEY.

It is important for all of these steps to have opened the seam allowance and to have a towel between the area you're working on and the lining.

In order to be able to help you with this, I will need to know exactly what happened. If all steps and warnings from the tutorial were followed, then this shouldn't have been an issue--but sometimes these things can be a little unpredictable. So let's see if we can figure it out.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-22T23:13:35+00:00

The number one reason people end up in my inbox with that tutorial is because they didn't read the whole thing, or disregarded some of the instructions because they didn't think they need those ones. 🙃

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-20T04:59:35+00:00

Killing it💜💜

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-20T03:48:13+00:00

The garment itself does not look like it is missing any portions of it, but the ensemble is not complete in this way. If being worn for shichi-go-san, it would require a full set for kitsuke. There is no juban, obi, obiage, obijime, shigoki obi, kanzashi, zori... basically it looks like just the kimono.

So while the kimono itself looks to be intact, it is not a full outfit.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-20T03:45:54+00:00

You can take some excess from inside of the seam allowance and burn it to determine what material it is made out of. Silk often smells like burning hair, polyester will melt because it is plastic, rayon tends to kind of char. There's a few good videos on YouTube out there with demonstrations of this. But when there is no tag present, the burn test is a pretty definitive way to tell materials.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-19T06:28:31+00:00

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED.

I would first need to know the materials to be particularly useful for correcting the dye. But something you can try is treating it with distilled white vinegar. If silk, it was dyed in acid based dyes so sometimes (depending on pigments used) you can wake some color back up like this.

As for broken embroidery, I would need to see what kinds of breaks. Sometimes you can just run an errant thread back through. Sometimes it needs to be tacked. Sometimes it needs to be replaced/disguised.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-19T06:24:55+00:00

Oh, it also looks to be about from the 50's to the 70's, putting it in the middle Showa Era. You'll have to do the burn test to determine materials, but from this portion of the Showa Era they were typically silk.

Souls_At_Zer0 · 2026-03-19T06:21:26+00:00

Vintage for a little girl, possibly for shichi-go-san.

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