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Outside my studio
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About Me
- Bryan's Japanese Textiles
- My home is in a vertical mountain village in Fujino just outside of Tokyo. It is here, in my 150 year old silk farming house I hold classes and workshops related to Japanese textiles. Our village shrine dates back 650 years. I’ve dug up dozens of 5000-year-old Jomon-era pottery shards near by. Twenty-one houses are scattered and perched on ledges along a narrow twisting road. Most of the somewhat ramshackle farmhouses designed for silk farming cling poetically to the deep shadows of afternoon. The land reached by the sun was either too steep to build on or was used to grow enough food to survive. From the front of my house I can see well-tended tea terraces ascending impossibly upward. Climb up the hillside and from the queues of tea you can survey my old farmhouse and on extra clear days even spy a self-conscious Mt Fuji.
This is an amazing process. I love your pictures and the explanations you gave.
ReplyDeleteIt seems impossible that from these cocoons you will have silk.
Yes, it still amazes me after all these years. I suppose that I love the process and that beautiful silk thread for weaving is the added bonus at the end.
ReplyDeleteoh, so beautiful. so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWhat great photos! I was lucky to handled them today! THANKS!
ReplyDeleteHugs
Nat