Sample 'Copper Cloth' of woven fabric with copper wefts and Promix warps, designed by Reiko Sudo, NUNO Corporation, Japan, 1993,

Sample of woven dark pink iridescent fabric with copper (84%) wefts and white Promix (16%) warps. Single weave copper and Promix (TM); a new Japanese fibre regenerated from imported Australian milk casein powder and acrylonitrile.

Given by NUNO Corporation.

Included in the Design Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NY 1994.

NUNO was founded in 1984 as a commercial venture dealing with all stages of textile creation: planning designing, manufacturing and sales. It is a small company which endeavours to combine the best of the past, by drawing on traditional Japanese aesthetics and creative processes, and combining them with modern technologies.

Registered File number 1997/1353, taken from Departmental Record

Attribution note: Manufacturer's note: Copper thread sometimes finds use in medical applications for its reputed antibacterial and antiallergenic properties, though rapid oxidation tends to limit its use to surgical masks and other disposable items. The copper wefts of this fabric are the very same material used in telephone lines, the polyurethane coating that protects against electric shock and signal noise also happens to prevent 'greening' and brittleness, rendering it an ideal weaving thread.
Reason For Production: Retail

The NUNO Corporation was founded in 1984. Based in Tokyo, its design studio creates modern textiles and accessories. NUNO designers are renowned for their ability to develop and apply the latest technology to textile design and manufacture. However, much of their work is also based on traditional Japanese textile techniques and aesthetics, and it is this fusion of the traditional with the contemporary that makes NUNO fabrics so innovative.

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