After the Onin War, weavers who had been evacuated to other places returned to the headquarters of both Nishijin (west camp) and Higashijin (east camp), and revived Kyoto textiles, employing new techniques which they had learned at various provinces, and some of them were introduced from the Ming Empire.
応仁の乱の戦火を逃れて避難していた職人たちは、乱が終わると両軍の本陣の跡地である東陣・西陣に帰還し諸国で習い覚えた明などの新技術も加えて京織物を再興した。