Hand Bag with Stitched Hexagonal Pattern

Bamboo hand bags are popular accessory for kimono and yukata fashion.

But the basic hexagonal pattern is not. 

Probably it's not fashionable...

So, for hand bags, stitched hexagonal (sashi-mutsume) and decorative hexagonal (hana-mutsume) are used instead.

Stitched hexagonal has a few variations.

This is the simplest one.

Additional sticks are inserted only in one direction, producing checker pattern over hexagons.

Thick bamboo sticks are attached and bound with rattan.

Handles are attached using rattan.

Kamogawa

Kamogawa is a type of flower vase for tea ceremony. 

It was originally just a gabion, until someone found the beauty of the rustic simplicity in the constructing material and brought it in the tea ceremony hundreads years ago. 

The base is formed with a single hexagonal motif.

The top part is very similar to the base part.
There is no rim or bindings.
The material is simply woven into the body part.

Cocoon Basket

Tadashi Yagisawa is a basketry meister in the lineage of bamboo artists in Kanto region.

He has his own studio with apprentices, but he is also regularly teaching at culture centers in Tokyo.

That's where I learned how to make this basket.

It looks random but actually carefully designed to form the structure with minimum number of thick bamboo sticks.

The base is formed with a few hexagonal patterns.

There is no binding at the rim. 

The material is woven into the body part.