Yoko Trading -- www.yokodana.com

Surely only the oldest of our readers will know that reference to bananas<smile>; anyway, it connotes that we say we have something but we really don’t — namely, Dana is not yet caught up the fabric section so alot are marked ’sold’...

Thanks to all who came out to see us at the WilmingtonFlower Market. We met more new Japanese textile enthusiasts and even a few yokodana.com site visitors stopped by to say hello. We love that...

Schedule info due to flower market (see yesterday’s blog), we will not be able to ship anything until next week. Will be checking secure order logs and emails in the evening but no shipments can go out until starting Tuesday, May 12t

As there may be some showers during the show, we wanted to give an FYI to those fans travelling any distance that We will be there no matter what –under a larger merchants tent so are on no matter what the weather...

(Note, added May 3: Meisen Silk & other silks also posted) Short note fyi for those watching our fabrics-by-piece section: just put a bunch of cottons & silks(including meisen)up on page 7, to see just click HERE. Venues coming up: 1...

Note to Japanese Indigo Cotton Lovers: FYI, Nice bunch of kasuri (ikat) and others just puton page7 of fabric by-piece section.(Also, go backwards to page 6 earlier for a few other kasuri pieces). We have a bit more kasuri to put up as soon as Dana gets around to it…

What a weekend! In DC there had to be easily 250,000 people at the DC Cherry Blossom Festival — and alot of them visited us! Had a great day — aside from the gales that kept blowing things away — met alot of web site visitors and a few members, and hopefully made other new friends...

We’ll be also doing the Subaru Sakura Sunday Cherry Blossom Festival run by the Japan American Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP). Events of this festival run for 2 weeks, with the Sakura Sunday being the the final main event...

We’re still working feverishly to be sure we have as much fabric etc for this Saturday’s Cherry Blossom Street Festival in Washington DC as we can...

Wow, what a great time we had at the Urban Inspirations quilt show at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC this past weekend! We were happy to see some of our New York City area “regulars” whom we hadn’t seen since our last Fort Washington (PA) show a few years ago...

PS: Our booth number at the Garden State Exhibit & Convention Center is 112. Show details/info links are in previousposts: http://yokodana.com/blog/?p=316If you do come to see us, please print this out for a discount and present before checking out. Hope to see you there! Yoko & Dana

This will be the first time in over a year that we’re fairly close to our New York City & environs. If you’ve never visited us at a venue, please check out our details HERE...

(Corrected Typo,feb24th) PS to our announcements about our recently updated fabric section: From now on , when you buy 4 pieces or more from this section you get a fifth one free; free piece must be in this fabric pieces section of the site and of same value as your most expensive item or less...

We’ve decided to try another venue closer to our New York Metropolitan Area clients. As this will be our first venue since last fall, and we’ve been accumulating vintage kimono & fabrics since then, our selection will be optimal...

NOTE, February 7, 2009: We recently updated and revised our fabric section, adding a good number of new (to the site) fabrics. Almost all prices have gone down, and are found at different locations in the fabric section than previously...

NOTE: Starting January 31, 2009 we will be working daily on updating the fabric pieces section of the site, adding new fabrics and also lowering prices on most of our fabrics...

Well…after much ado, Dana has finally added many new fabrics to the web catalog. He’s still proofing everything for accuracy but if you want to take a peek at it you can start here...

We wish everyone a good year in 2009. We had our blog down for a few days for some upgrades, in case you were looking for us. Shipping Schedule as of January 19, 2009: We’ve both been under the weather so any order received since January 15th will be delayed...

After a much needed extended vacation we’re back and raring to go, full of ‘vim, vigor and vitality’ as my Dad used to say :}. SHIPPING SCHEDULE: The orders received since December 22nd will begin shipping tomorrow (Tues. January6)...

We’ve decided to take some extra vacation this year. Orders received by 9:00AM (Eastern USA) on December 23rd will ship by December 24th; Shipments will resume January 5, 2009, shipping in order received. It’s amazing that 2008 is at an end already...

We’ve been quiet here because we’re busy filling orders (thankfully of course). Dana is still trying to get the fabric section updated in between shipments and babysitting the grandkids and hopes to complete that soon ( I know, that’s what he said last month…:D )...

To our USA visitors and customers we say: ! Tomorrow (Thursday, Nov.27th) is a holiday so we will be celebrating with family. We wll be closed for business until Monday, December 1st. Orders received by noon (our time Eastern USA) will ship today or Friday...

Just a quick note to say hi! to our new customers from the Newark DE area and especially to some of our ‘fans’ from other venues and members of our opt-in list! We love putting names to faces and hearing how people have used what they’ve purchased from us...

Visit to Japan: vintage kimono fabrics, beads, etc Very nice blog journal describing a visit to Japan, nice pictures and comments… Tokyo By Julie Marabelle She invited us to this traditional Japanese restaurant for lunch - Toushirou - and to make our day she gave us a ‘welcoming gift’, one...

We found this charming blog and thought visitors might also… Sensoji shrine in Asakusa, Japan Asakusa in Tokyo By Ben Hosaka(Ben Hosaka) There were about 10 stalls selling vintage kimonos and they hold quite good conditioned kimonos and fabrics...

We say hello to those we met at this past weekend’s show in Harrington, Delaware. We appreciated those members who stopped in to say hello...

We’re back partially starting today. Thanks to so many of you who wrote us offering condolences — we really appreciated that. All orders received during our absence have been shipped. We also are going to try 2 new venues at craft shows near us in Delaware...

We are closed temporarily due to death in the family. All messages will be responded to upon our return. We expect to be open for business on Wednesday, September 24th.

In spite of a washout on Saturday, we had a great festival on Sunday. The weather was perfect and the festival itself was so wonderful that it is one of those that we almost wished we weren’t working so we could enjoy it fully...

For details of changes to the schedule of the Mushroom Festival click here. Original time for Street Fair is 10:00AM to 5:00PM. Our booth number is E09 located on the north side (right) of State Street (one-way heading west), after the Paws & Claws and before the  intersection with Lincoln Street...