Chakin is a cloth used to wipe tea bowls. The tea cloth is soaked in water in the tea cloth bowl of Mizuya.
[1] Take the brown cloth from the tea cloth tray, hold the two diagonal corners of the brown cloth, fold it in half, hold the corners with your right hand, pinch the middle with your left thumb, and fold it in two again. Then pull out your thumb, put your right hand up, and squeeze it tightly.
[2] Hold both diagonal corners of the squeezed brown cloth, spread it, and pull the left and right sides of the long side to smooth out the wrinkles.
[3] Keep the edge of the chakin in your right hand, hold the left edge in your left hand, and hold the short edge next to it with your left hand.
[4] Release the first end held in your right hand and smooth out any wrinkles.
[5] Keep the edge of the chakin in your right hand, hold the left edge in your left hand, and hold the short edge next to it with your left hand.
[6] Release the first end held in your right hand and smooth out the long wrinkle on the right side.
[7] Fold the top third of the horizontally long brown cloth over.
[8] Hold it with your right hand, hang the brown cloth vertically, and fold it in half in the middle with your right hand.
[9] Make sure that both ends of the folded brown cloth are folded correctly by 1/3.
[10] Fold the right edge down a little so that the brown cloth becomes square, and pull the left thumb out of the brown cloth as well.
[11] With the slightly folded side facing away, hold it with your right hand and place it in a bowl so that the bulge is facing you.
