In Japan, colorful, hand-dyed cloths called tenugui enrich our daily lives. The word comes from te, which means “hand” in Japanese, and nugui, which means “to wipe,” but since their creation, they ...

Traditional Japanese hand towels known as tenugui can be put to all kinds of uses. The light, cotton towels have been popular since the Edo period (1603–1868) for wiping hands or foreheads, wrapping ...

Tenugui is a handkerchief-like cotton cloth that can be used for everything from wiping and wrapping to interior decoration in Japan. With the support of tenugui specialists Kamawanu, this exhibition ...

Tenugui hand towels have long been a common place feature of daily life in Japan. Originally for wiping off perspiration or drying hands, over the years these thin cotton towels turned out to be very ...