Fabric examples
OEM
Creating high-quality products together
High-quality fabrics that complement the design
Makita Shoten is always challenging itself with new manufacturing techniques, creating value for the future, and cherishing encounters with people. By considering what it can do with its advanced techniques, equipment, and know-how in fabric and umbrella making, the company is also actively involved in producing fabrics to be used as materials for products in other industries, including for creators and companies. Its partners are diverse, including fashion brands, watch bands, workshops, and student collaborations, and it listens to their ideas, thoroughly considers what it can do with its techniques and materials, and works together to create high-quality products.
Clothing
Clothes
Azuma.
A Japanese fashion brand designed by Azuma Kengo. Debuted with the 2015 Fall/Winter collection. Mainly develops menswear. The concept is "clothes that don't kill emotions."
Subheading
Fabric-based products
Our flexible and durable fabrics are used not only in clothing and apparel, but also in a wide variety of products, including interior goods, miscellaneous goods, and accessories. We support our customers in their diverse manufacturing endeavors, based on their own creative ideas.
knot
Knot is a Made in Japan custom watch brand. Their custom straps feature a dragonfly pattern fabric, created in collaboration with Makita Shoten.
Original textile order
[For corporate customers only] Would you like to manufacture your own original jacquard fabric?
<Weaving umbrella fabric and clothing fabric>
There are six main steps that Makida Shoten goes through before their fabrics are finished, and each step is carried out by specialized craftsmen who have inherited the traditions of the ancient production area.
<Type of fabric>
Makita Shoten weaves a variety of textiles, focusing on umbrella fabric and clothing fabric, while exploring new possibilities for fabric.
<Umbrella case study>
Makita Shoten has its own integrated production line, from making the umbrella fabric to assembling it, and is also actively engaged in manufacturing original brand umbrellas and product development projects with students.