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.

Saturday, 24 May 2014

Leafy Tails University of Applied Shibori, Graduate Class of May 2014.

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Thank you Mark for this picture and title for the post. Ichi go ichi e.  A very precious and special time together. Thank you Margit, Bee,...
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Saturday, 17 May 2014

Spring 2014 Workshops.

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This spring I held three ten-day workshops. (Number three is in full swing now.) I thought I might be dead of exhaustion by the last group. ...
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Shibori, Katazome and Weaving: Three Months Worth

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Mini came and stayed at the house for three months last spring and again this spring. She arrived in the snow. While the damage was being cl...
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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Motohiko Katano Shibori Postcards

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At the Japanese Folkcraft Museum you can buy four books of postcards featuring the work of the shibori /indigo master Motohiko Katano. Mo...
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Monday, 21 April 2014

Cherry Blossom Workshop

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I hold ten-day workshops at the farmhouse in spring and autumn. I've done it seven times now. It is such an intense time having a group ...
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Sunday, 20 April 2014

New Studio, Kitchen and Bath...

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Hibernation held me deep in it's warm arms through January.  Sleeping in every morning and going to bed early.  (Recovering from a long...
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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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