Padded Hanten Jacket – Part 2

Madeleine — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:17:48 +0000

I used polyester wadding for this project. Since the outer shell of the garment was a wool/poly blend, I wasn’t worried about wrinkles or the need to iron the garment in the future. It gave the garment a nice, puffy look, but I cannot say I like it. I somehow feel it is not in keeping with the spirit of the hanten, which I feel should be all natural, easy to wash, wear and iron if necessary.

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Resources for Hanten Construction

Madeleine — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:37:52 +0000

There is a charming video on the entire process from weaving to finished hanten at a factory in Japan, and it is kind of worth watching to get a solid idea of the construction process. This other video shows a smaller production establishment, but as you can see, they are using a very specific kind of fluffy cotton wadding that, I suspect, is not easy to get outside Asia. Here is a Japanese…

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Padded Hanten Jacket – Part 1

Madeleine — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 07:45:31 +0000

A hanten is a short jacket that, like a haori, doesn’t have the okumi (the over lapping front flaps) of a kimono. There is the unpadded variety that groups like Taiko drummers wear, or the winter padded variety that were originally worn by everyday people in the winter to stay warm. It’s the second type I am setting out to make here. But the image below shows the basic construction.

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Sheer Over-Jacket Haori

Madeleine — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:54:15 +0000

I chose this sheer man-made fabric for an elegant over-jacket style Haori. One of the biggest challenges for this project was ensuring that the opaque lines joined neatly across seams. It required purchasing a little bit more fabric to be able to allow for shifting to match. The challenge of matching the lines also necessitated adjusting the yuki measurement on the parts. I basically cut at…

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Swiss Dot Jinbei

Madeleine — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 15:12:13 +0000

Not only did I have a lot of fun making that first jinbei, but I slept in it and just loved how comfortable and light it was, so when I found that the white cotton swiss dot fabric was on sale at my local fabric store, I decided to make another, even lighter one. The fabric was 145 cm wide, and 2 meters long, but now I know that I can actually do fine with 1.6 meters for my yuki.

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Hand Sewing: Stuff I’ve Learned

Madeleine — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:03:52 +0000

If you are a certain age – a bit older than I am – you probably learned hand sewing in school or from a parent. In some Asian countries, they still teach it. Not just to girls, but to everyone. I can’t remember who first taught me to sew, but I think it was while I was growing up in Spain in the 1960s. And strangely, it sticks with you a long, long time. Including some of the bad or useless info.

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Making a Jinbei (part 3)

Madeleine — Sat, 31 May 2025 08:35:14 +0000

With the pieces all cut out, Dora has come to help with the jinbei. Today I’m dealing with the seam finishes: different raw edge finishes for different areas. I’m more concerned about the jinbei top than the shorts, simply because I’m a little obsessive about a nice finish for it. I had decided that the back seam required the neatest of all of the raw edge finishes, and the fabric is very…

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Making a Jinbei (part 2)

Madeleine — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:14:19 +0000

Looking over the cutting plan on the free downloadable jinbei pattern, I thought I’d like it a little roomier, but the large was going to be too big. Also, I felt I could probably manage to be a little more economical with fabric and save myself a little time by cutting folded fabric, so I came up with this schema for using on the 145 cm fabric I bought, which had rather nice selvages too…

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Free Jinbei Pattern Download

Madeleine — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:18:28 +0000

This wonderful site has a huge number of free downloadable Japanese garment patterns. This page offers multiple sizes for a jinbei set for kids, men and women. While I’m not a fan of expending a ton of printer paper on piecing together paper patterns, the site also offers a free cutting layout schema and a diagram that specifies the measurements of each part of the patterns…

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Making a Jinbei (part 1)

Madeleine — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:01:33 +0000

A jinbei is a set of garments: a top which crosses over to tie both inside and outside, and either a pair of shorts or long pants. The waist of the shorts/pants are either elastic or with a drawstring. These were clothes meant for lounging around the house during the summer or for sleepwear, and originally only for men, but in recent times they’ve become popular with women also. Muji has some for…

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