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.

Friday, 28 August 2009

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Using persimmon tannin to get rustic browns on linen. Unlike most natural dyes which need to be boiled and mordented with a mineral sal...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009

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A group of twenty university students were over to dye tengui. Two variations of binding techniques but twenty completely different effects...
Wednesday, 26 August 2009

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I couldn't resist another lotus picture. A few years back I snapped a picture of a bee in the lotus. The image was strong but the bee wa...
Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Weaving and Indigo class

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A full blooming lotus greeted four students this cool late August morning. The cicada's shrill buzz less and less noticible and varities...
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Monday, 24 August 2009

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As the summer here draws to a close, the evenings are cooler and the lotus are blooming outside my front door, I have decided to start worki...
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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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