As the plantation of cotton plants started in the suburbs of Matsusaka, cotton textile industry also started to flourish, producing indigo-dyed textiles with stripes as fine as willow leaf veins called Ryujo-fu (literally, ‘willow twig textile’), which was a pattern brought in from northern Vietnam by traders. Infinite variations of color can be achieved by the dyeing methods, and numerous stripe patterns created were given titles, such as komochi-shima (literally ‘parent-stripe’) or daimyo-shima (‘feudal lord’s stripe’). These indigo stripes are still used as popular patterns when weaving Matsusaka Momen.