For this Japanese craft project, we made a shirt out of a checked fabric made with "specially spun yarn." Specially spun yarn is the name for yarn spun by a special spinning method that began production in the Mikawa region of Aichi Prefecture around the beginning of the Taisho era. It is a type of yarn made from recycled waste textile materials, lint, and fabric scraps from textile factories. It is a fluffy, voluminous yarn that contains a lot of air, and the fabric woven with this yarn is very light yet fluffy and thick, which is its charm. Since the fibers of the spun cotton alone are too short to be spun, it is blended half with polyester fibers, but when dyed, it becomes one-sided and creates a marbled unevenness. It also has a nubbed, napped texture, and a natural feel that is also one of its charms. The Japanese fabric brand "Shuttle Notes" has had a lineup of fabrics made with this yarn for a long time, and Sunny clouds has used it several times, but I heard that the spinning factory has gone out of business. Apparently they took it to a few other spinning mills to see if they could make a similarly bulky yarn, but in the end, no one could achieve this fluffy feel. Therefore, once the current yarn is used up, the fabric used for this shirt will no longer be able to be made. This precious fabric has been made into a shirt with wide sleeves and a slightly kimono-like design. The fabric is from Banshuori in Hyogo Prefecture, where Shuttle Notes is based, and the sewing was done by Tomie Kobo in the Goto Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture. The result is a light, thick, fluffy and soft shirt.