Category: Japan Textile Tour
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Kasuri preservation
How exciting is this. Cotton plants welcoming visitors to a cotton Kasuri weaving studio. This studio is in Okayama prefecture which seemed to reveal more cultural and textile riches as we journeyed into it. Reaching it after a short walk through the narrow streets of the town we come to a place which signals ‘textile’ with…
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Textile artists in Japan – make my heart sing
I am crazy about the Australian bush landscape. And when I go to another country I’m also crazy about their rural and ‘bush’ landscape. Of course they don’t call it bush, it is forest. In Japan this forest is mountainous and beautiful. We came across cypress pines and bamboo and ancient places where temples were.…
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Japan Textiles and Culture
“What did you see, what did you do?” Where to start… Probably the best way of describing Japan is the feeling of culture shock when you arrive back in your own country! After about an hour the feeling subsides as you start to slot into the semi disorganisation, and the lack of many things here.…
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The special cloth
Back to it! Being away with the textile tour group in Japan was fantastic. I always feel like another person when I’m away. Briefly stepping away from worries and the stresses of life, and into another world where I am largely a spectator. However there are many nice things about being home, nearer family and…