I am in Vancover. The first time I've spent any time here in 25 years.
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Outside my studio
fresh green
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.
And very handsome you look too! I've been following your progress via the Maiwa blog entries and your other friends. The new work looks interesting and totally different apart from the wraps. Is that knitted asa or nettle, indigo dyed? Hopefully we'll learn more when you have time to take a breather.
ReplyDeleteIt must feel totally weird.....but have fun while you are there!
ReplyDeleteSusan
hey Bryan, it was nice to meet you, if briefly. wish i had known you would be teaching when i was making my travel plans...they might have been somewhat different! best, india
ReplyDeleteI would have liked to be there!
ReplyDeleteisn't it weird to be saying "in 25 years"? i am amazed when i say that myself! i've been living in my house now for 27 years!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! I wish I could have attended the lecture. I am trying to save up to come to Japan for one of your workshops. I fear I might not be able to make that happen, but I'll try!
ReplyDeleteThought I felt you close(r) to me! Enjoy beautiful Vancouver, you handsome devil!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the workshop beyond indigo. It changed some of my assumptions.
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you.