Japanese Textile Workshops 　日本のテキスタイル　ワークショップ

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.

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Naoko's Shibori

Recently students have been producing some wonderful shibori pieces. I did so much shibori ten years ago that I simply burned out not realizing that for students it is new and exciting territory. Here Naoko and her five wonderful Kai kens (with Madam Snoopy) patiently untie some Katano shibori.

And here she produced a wonderful hinode shibori variation.

3 comments:

saganishiki29 May 2011 at 20:40
Naoko's work is beautiful. I hope she continues her shibori discovery.
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neki desu30 May 2011 at 21:21
such depth of blues!
lovely clematises you have.
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Anita Thomhave Simonsen8 April 2016 at 00:41
beautiful work...inspiring blog you have...Smile..:O)
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