Bingata 紅型 is a traditional Okinawan textile dyeing technique that has long attracted people with its bright colors and simple motifs inspired by the flowers, plants, and natural beauty of Okinawa.

Before chintz became the print we loved, then loved to hate, and now, perhaps, love again, it began simply in the early 1600s as a glazed Calico (a type of cotton originally from Calicut in India) ...