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.

Thursday, 18 January 2024

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 Hello friends and old-time followers.  I ran out of Blogger steam. I closed down the business during the pandemic. The workshops are up and...
Wednesday, 3 June 2020

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So much for my ten-day silkworm challenge. In a ten-day album challenge it would have been like running out of energy on day four on the Bo...

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Day 3 of the silkworm challenge. Three videos on this post. Watch them and change your life. The silkworm eggs didn't hatch today...oh o...
Friday, 29 May 2020

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Day two of the silkworm challenge.  These bamboo trays (Ebira or Kago) are used to raise silkworms on.  There is not a single respectab...
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Thursday, 28 May 2020

Silkworm challenge.

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Silkworm eggs....Yeah...exciting stuff. Instead of the ten day, ten album challenge to see what ten albums have shaped my taste in music ...
Tuesday, 26 May 2020

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I’ve been living and making my living in this 650 year old mountain hamlet and 150 year old silk farming house for over 25 years now. I did...
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Friday, 31 January 2020

Procraftination & Craftermath

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" I cursed you as I procraftinated for weeks and then double cursed you in the craftermath." The workshop participants are usu...
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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.
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