stretching of cloth
Refers to the process of pulling or stretching fabric, often in textile work or traditional crafts.
In the cloth-stretching process, the fabric is stretched evenly.
Standard kanji spelling for the action of stretching cloth.
Variant spelling; the okurigana-less form is also used.
Compound of 布 (nuno, 'cloth') and 引き (hiki, 'pulling'), from the verb 引く (hiku). The spelling 布引 is a variant without okurigana.