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Nothing adds, the healthy Tatami was made. |
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original additive-free material raise with the healthy
ground |
| Soejima Isao
Shoten Co., LTD. adheres to Tatami, which is using plenty
of the rice straw, and Igusa of decrease agricultural
chemicals. For customers' comfort in use, we perform the
residual-agricultural-chemicals examination based on the
registration suspension standard of the rice of Food Sanitation
Law. |
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| The
Tatami, which considered people and environment |
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Insent control processing,
anti-tick processing, and the anti-bacterial treatment
have been carried out to no components at all. |
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100% of rice straw, from the Chikugo
district by which decrease agricultural-chemicals cultivation
was carried out , is dried more than for one year, and
it is used for inside material. |
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Tatami facing uses Igusa from the Chikugo
district by which decrease africultural-chemicals cultivation
(about 1/10 of the usual amount of the agricultural chemicals
used) was carries out, and carries out only "mud
dyeing" processing which does not contain dye. |
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The lining cloth of a tatami is using
cloth of 100% cotton woven in the Chikugo district. |
| 5. |
The inside material of Tatami and the
material of Tatami facing were performed residual- agricultural-chemicals
examination. |
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| From making
the healthy ground |
| In order to make good
Igusa, it is from making the ground first. |
| In the
Chikugo district, both rice and Igusa are produced
by couble-cropping. It continues groping for various
methods, such as a lactic acid drink, and milk,
a garlic, white distilled liquor, wood vinegar liquid,
and only about 1/10 conventional agricultural chemicals
are used at present. We use the freshwater snail
eating weeds, without also using a weed killer as
much as possible. Igusa of the "Chikugo Tatami"
which grew up with the healthy ground has the body
firmly up to the point of a leaf having strength,
flexibility, and gloss. |
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| Using
the much rice straw |
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| Neither science system
materials, such as polystyrene form, nor the strong
toxic insect control sheet is used for the "Chikugo
Tatami" series. We make the inside material
of 100% of rice straw which was dried well and which
can smell of the Sun. Rice straw grown by decrease
agricultural chemicals waits to put it to sleep
also at least for more than one year, to dry thoroughly,
to avoid attaching an insect, and for redidual agricultural
chemicals to disperse. |
| Rice straw is the
material. which returns to the ground. It is the
method accordant to very natural reason to make
the Tatami using much rice straw in the Japanese
rice-culture. |
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| Igusa
changes to amber |
| Probably in Japan, many people
think that the greener Tatami is beautiful. However,
Igusa is a natural material. After the suntanned,
Tatami has become amber, which is the original natural
beauty of Tatami. However, in the market, Igusa
of many tatami facing dyes green by chemistry dye
and is shipped not only by the product from China
but by also some of Igusa from Japan. |
| In quest of the material of a safe
Tatami, Soejima Isao Shoten Co., LTD. looked for,
asked and walked around all over the production
famhouses. Now that, we have made the traditional
way of Tatami facing dyed only by tha natural dye-mud. |
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| Sorting
is repeated for weaving |
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| Igusa is divided in
length at first, and is cut to same length. And
sorting is repeated again and again. Igusa is ectended
on a knee, or is a pipe, and is extended like a
shape of fan, in order to find and eliminate every
one of damage as crack or suntan by people!s eye
and hand. Finally it applies to a loom. However
mechanization may progress, if there is no eye for
judging Igusa and care of Tatami masters, it will
be difficult to make good Tatami facing. |
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