It also helped that one of the shigoki had tassels in the exact same shade as the glorious spiderweb haneri from Naomi. A splash of red was the perfect way to visually separate the two pieces as well as tie in the leaves on the obi. I’ve been hesitant about this combo since the kimono and the obi are so close in colour, but my salvation arrived in the mail on the Thursday before the party, in a boxful of shigoki obi. Oops! I figured in the spirit of all things Creepy and Spooky, I’d see about pairing it up with my spider obi instead. I’d originally wanted to wear it with my crow obi but I still haven’t had the opportunity to repair it. I was invited to a party on October 30th this year, and I figured it was high time I broke out my Gothic Landscape houmongi. I used a fun little spider ring as an obi-kazari because there’s never too many spiders. Of course, I had to use my spider haneri, and some olive-green accessories tied everything together.

It blends in well with the kimono pattern and feels very natural. I attached a single spider patch to the front and I actually think this was quite effective. It’s in rough shape, but it was easy enough to work with on the mannequin. The kimono is one of the pieces I bought at the bazaar over the weekend it’s technically a motif of branches and fall foliage, but it feels like a spider-web, and the leaves are a nice callback to the leaves caught in the webs on the obi. The spiders are in locations that make it difficult to tie while keeping them visible both on the tare and the tesaki, and the texture makes it grip to itself in a way that makes it virtually impossible to adjust once I’ve wrapped it. I love the rough, textured feel of it, and of course the spiders. It was the first piece I bought here in Montreal, and it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. I’ve mentioned this before but I have such a love/hate relationship with this obi. Of course, I had to start with my spider obi.

Spider brocade texture