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A clutch bag made from fish skin and decorated with blue floral patterns.

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Fish Skin as Fashion – from Indigenous Knowledge to the Runway

Accomplished designer and Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Research Associate,...

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A brown clutch bag made from fish skin with a beige flower in the center, patterned with wood grain.

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Zougan Fish Leather Clutch

Fish leather and wood are quite the pair, as evidenced by this clutch designed in...

A clutch bag made from fish skin with a detailed design of a landscape.

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Sakhalin Fish Skin Painting Clutch

The Sakhalin fish skin painting technique is echoed in this clutch—whose surface...

A blue, silver, and black fish skin robe displayed hanging from a rod. The robe is created from multiple fish skin sewn together and dyed with indigo.

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Replica of an Ainu Fish Skin Robe

This robe is a replica Ainu fish skin robe, made from the traditional indigenous...

A clutch bag made from fish skin that is folded into ruffle patterns.

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Origami Fish Leather Clutch

For this clutch designer Elisa Palomino-Perez collaborated with Florence based...

A clutch bag made from fish skin and decorated with blue floral patterns.

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Indigo Katazome Dyed Fish Leather Clutch

The technique used in this salmon skin clutch utilizes a rice-flour resist paste...

A man, surrounded by fish skins hanging to dry, kneels before a large pit as he demonstrates the tanning process.

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Ainu Fish Skin Tanning Workshop

Pictured here is a 2018 fish skin tanning workshop attended by Palomino-Perez and...

A bright red clutch bag made from fish leather and patterned with shimmering gold koi fish imagery.

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Lacquerware Fish Leather Clutch

Emulating traditional japanese lacquerware, this clutch's design was achieved by...

A series of six images depicting the Kakishibu dyeing process. The top two images show slices of persimmons, the middle two show the brown shades of juice distilled from the fruit, and the bottom two show a swatch of fish skin being dyed brown with the juice.

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Kakishibu Dyed Fish Leather

Artist Harukaa Takei dyes fish skin using the traditional Japanese method known as...

A pair of silver colored sneakers with white shoelaces, made from fish skin and dyed with blue floral patterns.

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Fish Leather Sneakers

Designed and created by accessory designer Cristina Mirri at Calzaturificio Tarcio...

A clutch bag made from fish skin, decorated with a large flower created with collaged shapes cut from fish leather.

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Hezhen Fish Skin Painting Clutch

This layered clutch draws from the Hezhen tradition of fish skin painting....

A clutch bag made from fish leather with orange, white, and pink chrysanthemum designs.

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Chrysanthemum Patterned Fish Leather Clutch

This Chrysanthemum patterned clutch was designed by Elisa Palomino-Perez and...