Living in a small mountain village just outside of Tokyo, I grow a crop of indigo every year and process the leaves into dye using traditional methods. I also breed silk moths, raise the silkworms and then reel/spin the silk from the cocoons. The silk is then dyed with natural dyes and finally woven on traditional Japanese looms.
I run several ten-day live-in workshops a year at the old farmhouse here in Japan focusing on the Japanese use of indigo.
Contact me for information.
Friday 18 June 2010
Just to put some faces to the last silk farmers in my area.
Jimbo sans are over 80. This will be their last year raising silkworms. Both of them have raised silkworms their entire lives. They are self-sufficient rice farmers as well as making their own miso and tofu from their own soybeans. Wow.
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