Wooden cart wheels are a recurring motif in traditional Japanese design, and this jacket incudes two very different versions. I made the shell of this bomber jacket from a woven tsumugi kimono that I disassembled with an overlapping cart wheel design. The lining is made from silk kimono fragments that also depict cart wheels – though stencilled in vivid pink, red yellow and blue.

I quilted the interior panels with undyed wool batting and a silk habotai substrate. From the neckline to the rear hem measures 22" and from the neckline tothe sleeve edge measures 31." The armpits are 26" in distance.