This post is a little overdue, but some real life commitments and work have kept me a busy man. About two weeks ago I brought my fabric over to a friends house and we used his sewing machine to make my robes. I used a pattern that can be found at tk409′s site.

For my fabric I used a waffle like print for the inner robe, and a thicker, natural weave from India for my outer robe. The outer robe has a seam down the middle of the back. I had to sew two pieces together since the fabric was not as wide as I needed.

Outer Robes

Inner Robes...

Weathering the robes was fairly easy. I soaked them in tea like I did with the fabric I used for my leg wraps. For darker spots I used coffee in a spray bottle. I applied this around the base of the robe where it would touch the ground, and also at the end of the sleeves. On my inner robes I used some brown water color paint I had and sprayed that as well. I wasn’t really happy with the end result of my inner robes, but they will work for now. They are very light weight, so these may turn into “summer robes.”

Overall cost was around 8-9000 yen.

I’ve also made my arm wraps, by using an old gardening glove and sleeves from an old shirt. I used the same material that I used on my boots to wrap the arms. By using materials I already had, I didn’t really spend any money on these. Thanks to my friend TS-969 for the old gloves (you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find canvas work gloves in Tokyo!)

Here is a pick with what I have so far. I call this the poor man’s Jedi.