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Gyoda Tabi Today | Artisan Craft and a New Knit Tabi

Gyoda City in Saitama was once one of Japan's great tabi-producing towns, said to have made the majority of the country's tabi. ISAMI, an inheritor of the Gyoda tabi craft, looks at the region's hi...

How to Choose and Style Tabi Socks: A Grown-Up Guide to Footwear

A guide to wearing tabi socks with quiet confidence, from the tabi makers at ISAMI. How to choose by colour, fabric and construction, how to pair them with sneakers and sandals, and how to enjoy th...

Tabi vs. Socks: Five Differences, Seen Through How They're Made

The biggest difference between tabi and socks isn't the shape — it's the making. Socks are knitted on a circular machine; tabi are cut from cloth and tailored. A tabi maker in Gyoda explains, from ...

Mitsuke and Gyoda: How Two Craft Regions Met

The knit region of Mitsuke, Niigata, and the tabi region of Gyoda, Saitama. The Knit Tabi was born when the skills of two regions joined hands.