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, 14 June 2019

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A lot is going on here at the farm in May and June. Tea Harvest. Live-in workshops. Silkworms. Indigo planting.  The last ten-day liv...
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Thursday, 9 May 2019

Daddy Waiting.

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I have been raising silkworms for over 20 years. Last year I took year off. 1000 eggs about to hatch tomorrow. Such anticipation and excitem...
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Winter Silence

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The blog was quiet and hibernating. I had the house to myself all winter. Hiro was in Brazil for three and a half months. I went to New Ze...
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Quick visit to Laos

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I worked on a few development projects in Laos 15 years ago. It was all very exotic and exciting spending time in ethnic minority villages...
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Friday, 15 February 2019

Japanese Traditional Book Binding

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A tiny handmade box with a tiny book inside. I am at a loss for words. The Present God has graced me with something special. ...
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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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