Silk ito sageo1-22wrapping Cord for Japanese Samurai Sword Katana wakizashi

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I purchased two different colors of this wrap (dark blue and dark brown) for a couple of refit projects. On the plus side, the cord is very affordable, so it's not a great cost if you mess up, and the colors are very nice. You also get enough cord to wrap a 10-12" Tsuka and still have about 5' left over for a matching Sageo. On the negative, the cord is a bit stretchy, which makes for potentially sloppy diamonds, and can't be pulled very tightly (it gets significantly narrower as you stretch it). Worse: it frays very easily. This is particularly frustrating when trying to place Hishigame or tying the end knots (or even the presentation knot in the Sageo) as grabbing the cord with anything sharper than your fingertips will snag it. The softness of it does provide a nice grip when done, but it will shift a bit under use, so there's really no keeping the diamonds straight. So it's just fine for "working" swords that take a lot of abuse and don't have to look perfect, but not for a clean "presentation" wrap.

Fantastic look and feel, I'll definitely be buying from here again! I ended up getting this, while I wait for some genuine Japanese silk ito to finally make it through the USPS, and I'm extremely pleased! This is also 1/9th the price of that silk, sooo... 😅 While this isn't quite the purple I prefer, I feel like I can get it there by adding some blue dye, which I'll be trying out here very soon. The ito has a small amount of stretch to it, so make sure to pull it tight before making any measurements for things like hishigami. I keep hearing how the 'stretch' is a detriment, and maybe I don't know any better... but you just have to hammer the center of each diamond, as you make them, tightening after the hammer blows, and it'll stay put. But definitely, if you're a poor artist just making small projects, like me, this is a perfect product.

This Ito is very stretchy, and caused a lot of trouble performing tsuka-maki - if you slipped your grip even slightly, it could ruin your entire wrap. I also noticed that the Ito wasn’t very strong and even began to fray after only a couple hours of use, so keep that in mind too.I’d say it’s just worth the extra money to buy high quality Japanese silk or cotton Ito instead of this.

Great product and got it fast

This is for a katana that I am building, it seems high quality I'm satisfied

Product is AMAZING, super easy to work with and you can't beat the price. Very happy with it. A+

It's so slippery, soft and too pliable with no thickness, that it makes it almost impossible to tie a Sageo and more so for an Ito. I've sprayed it with Heavy fabric starch, dried it in the oven set on warm, but it didn't work well, so I sprayed it with clear coat lacquer. That did work. It made it firm enough to attempt tying it. I'll let it cure overnight and try to tie it tomorrow. Because of everything I had to do to get it to this point, I can not recommend this product for Sageo or Ito use!

Muy buen material, lo use para el sageo de la saya y quedo muy bien, llego antes de tiempo

Decent quality , didn't pay much so ok to wrap bokken