| company name | kuska fabric co., ltd. |
| address | 384-1 Iwaya, Yosanocho, Yosa-gun, Kyoto |
| founded | 1936 |
| tel | +81 (0)772-42-4045 |
| fax | +81 (0)772-42-4731 |
| info@kuska.jp | |
| director | Yasuhiro Kusunoki |
| products | Fashion accessories for men & women, hand-woven textile. |
| business | Dyeing, eaving and sales of own brand products, supplying of oem products for other companies’ brands. |
| employees | 13 |
| banks | Bank of Kyoto, Kyoto Hokuto Shinkin bank |
| 1936 | The founder Hiroyuki Kusunoki started the business of manufacturing and selling silk crepe products in Tango, Kyoto. |
| 1971 | KUSKA co., ltd. was established with an initial capital of JPY 20 million. |
| 1982 |
22nd-generation Masayoshi Kusunoki became the representative director of the company. The company started the business of manufacturing and selling small silk crepe goods. |
| 2008 |
3rd-generation Yasuhiko Kusunoki became the representative director of the company. ‘Koubou Itoguruma (studio spinning wheel)’ was registered as the company’s trademark. The company decided to focus 100% of its resources on handwoven products. |
| 2010 | KUSKA was launched as the new line of products under the concept of fusing ‘tradition,’ ‘fashion’ and ‘art’ into one. |
| 2012 | The company collaborated with the young french designer’s brand ‘Gaspard Yurkievich’ and participated in Pitti Immagine Uomo for the first time. |
| 2014 | Offered neckties for the tv program “wide scramble” aired on tv Asahi. KUSKA panel checkered stoles were purchased by the imperial household agency for prince and princess Akishino’s visiting to Tango. |
| 2015 | KUSKA’s tango jacquard tie started be in the in-flight sales magazine for 200 ANA international flights. Opened KUSKA flagship store in Karasuma Sanjo, Kyoto. |
| 2016 | Produced a tie in collaboration with Wako Ginza. |
| 2017 | First solo exhibition at the world’s largest men’s clothing exhibition “Pitty Imagine Uomo” held in Florence, Italy (exhibited 6 times in a row until january 2020). |
| 2018 | Collaborated with the famous store “tie your tie” in Florence, Italy. started operation of “THE TANGO”, a web media specializing in Tango. |
| 2019 | Started trading with Huntsman in Savile Row, London. |
| 2020 | Opened KUSKA flagship store in ‘Hibiya Okuroji’, Tokyo. produced original ties for students of Seishin High School in tango and provided free. |
| 2022 | KUSKA was rebranded as kuska fabric. kuska fabric flagship shop was reopened in the The Imperial Hotel Plaza. |