Maki Neko is printing

As some of you might already know, we are busy printing sweatshirts and T-shirts for coming spring. Our prints will be hand-printed with soft water-based silkscreen inks in a secret location in Warsaw.

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Meet Maki Neko - our mascot cat, who assists us at work, making sure that we select only the best materials for our jersey sweatshirts and T-shirts. 

Stay tuned for the coming cotton goodness this spring!

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traditional Japanese colors - KACHIKAESHI (褐返)

Samurai loved this color and often used it for their armor wishing to be a winner. Why? The word KACHI originates from KATSU (搗つ), which means to pound a fabric with dye in a mortar for the purpose of getting deeper color. It is phonetically same as KATSU (勝つ- to win). 

KACHIKAESHI (褐返) is a re-dyed indigo blue or a deep navy blue.

KACHIKAESHI (褐返)

This color is gained by a unique method of Japanese traditional indigo dyeing with dyer’s knotweed - AI (藍). KACHIKAESHI appears when already colored fabric is dyed over with dark blue.

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Japanese traditional colors - BENIAKA (紅赤 )

Let us introduce Japanese traditional colors. To start with, the colors of MakiMaki logo.

BENIAKA (紅赤 )

BENIAKA (紅赤 ) is similar to crimson but a little bit somber, transparent red.

BENI comes from BENIBANA (紅花 safflower), which was used from ancient time to dye textiles red. 

AKA comes from AKARUI (bright) as the antonym of KURO (black) and KURAI (dark).

Red color has a long history. It was used all over the world as the first color that was perceived and used by human being. Red was a symbol of authority, because to gain deep red using only natural dye was very laborious and not so easy.

This is how we looked for the red in our logo

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