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Historically the Japanese weaves were used to connect steel plates to form armor. Now they are used mainly for theatrical armor and casual wear like shirts, skirts, and belts. The weaves looks best when two different ring sizes are used: larger for the main rings that lay flat and smaller connector rings.

If you would like a sample fo any of these weaves, please contact us.

Japanese 3-in-1

This weave is classified as a web weave. It would mainly be used for shirts, skirts, and headpieces.

If you look closely you'll notice that it's basically Japanese 6-in-1 with out the middle of each flower (see description below)... but not quite.

Japanese 4-in-1

The most basic of all the Japanese weaves. This is probably the easiest for people to learn to weave.

This weave can be used for armor when the proper ring sizes are used. It can be as strong as the European 4-in-1 weave, but is more flexible and weighs less. In drama productins, this armor is quite hard to distinguish from European 4-in-1. Infact, some movies have used this weave in it's place.

Japanese 5-in-1

This is one of the trickier weaves for Japanese, but that doesn't say much. There are many different version or ways to make this weave. The version shown lays flat while others (like the one used for our Hacky Sacks) does not lay flat.

Japanese 6-in-1

This is the second most common Japanese weave, second to only the 4-in-1. Like the 4-in-1 this weave was historicaly used to connect large steel plates to for armor. Notice how it forms little 6 petal flowers.

It makes a tighter weave then the 4-in-1 but is a bit less flexible and weighs more, but is still lighter then European 4-in-1. This looks even nicer then the Japanese 4-in-1 on stage.

Japanese Cube

This is simply Japanese 4-in-1 but is woven in such a way that is forms a cube. This is a good example of the different symetrical shapes that Japanese weaves are famous for making. You can make almost any polygon shape using Japanese weaves.

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