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Tanmono
Traditional bolt of narrow-loom Japanese cloth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A tanmono (反物) is a bolt of traditional Japanese narrow-loomed cloth. It is used to make traditional Japanese clothes, textile room dividers, sails, and other traditional cloth items.
![A diagram of an orange roll of fabric.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Kimono-hanmotu1.png/220px-Kimono-hanmotu1.png)
![A diagram showing how a tanmono is cut into the pattern pieces for a kimono.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Kimono-krij1.png/320px-Kimono-krij1.png)
![A diagram showing how the pattern pieces of a kimono roughly folded into a kimono shape.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Kimono-zbirka.png/320px-Kimono-zbirka.png)
Tanmono ("mono" is a placeholder name) are woven in units of tan, a traditional unit of measurement for cloth roughly analogous to the bolt, about 35–40 centimetres (14–16 in) by about 13 yards (12 m).[1][2] One kimono takes one tan (ittan)[3] of cloth to make.[4] Tanmono are woven in the narrow widths most ergonomic for a single weaver[2] (at a handloom without a flying shuttle).