This one has pictures of katazome process at Noguchi's studio:
Aliki's rain work:
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.
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ReplyDeleteThe rain textiles evoke emotions of the season in which they were made. Sometimes calm, sometimes tumultuous. Good to see how both fallen rain and fallen leaves can leave their imprint on cloth. The gingko tree's offering of leaves were put to such good use in making a katazome yukata. Wherever I travel, I hope to make stencils of the leaves and tun them into textiles in shades of blue that are evocative of the place where they grew.
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