The winner of Prize Draw #1 is...

** L. Maarten, from Addlestone, Surrey, UK **

The winner was picked by giving each buyer a number, then using a random number generator to pick the winning number. I used the number generator at http://www.psychicscience.org/random.aspx to select the winner


The prize was a woman's, pure ro silk, formal, black tomesode kimono with mon (crests)



The selling price of the prize kimono is £58. Photos can be seen below. Although the kimono may look rather shaded in some photos, it is actually a lovely, even, dense black. Click the thumbnail images to see enlargements, which will open in new windows.
Ro silk is a light, slightly sheer silk, with a banded appearance to the weave; woven to be airy and keep one cool outdoors in summer. The mon (crests) are tachibana (citrus/mandarin orange). They are rather unsual in that diamond form, making it a more sought after kimono.
It is a very elegant, simple and demurely sexy kimono.
Being unpatterned, it can be adjusted to length the traditional Japanese way, with a fold over at the waist, or simply hemmed to length. Ro silk kimono are very comfortable and easy to wear.

A classic kimono to keep for yourself or ideal as a gift for a woman of any age

Measurements
Length 160cm
Sleeve end to sleeve end 129cm
Sleeve seam to sleeve seam 65cm
Weight 0.8 kilo

Photos: Click each small image below to see an enlargement, which opens in a new window, leaving this one open
  

  

Prize Draw #1 was to celebrate the opening of wafuku.co.uk. There will be a Prize Draw #2 to celebrate the first anniversary of the site, in April 2009