The thing to know is that when the blog is quiet for a bit it usually means that work is going on. So here’s an update of some of what has been happening around here.
I attended a talk on Saturday and became a member of the Wearable Art Connection in Southern California affectionately [...]
Arimatsu-Shibori 有松絞り
found this on youTube- it’s from narablog!
I have been tracking hits to this blog for a while now and thought you might find it interesting to see where the interest in shibori comes from in terms of location. This pie chart represents a fairly typical day where 60% of the hits come from the US and 40% from other countries. [...]
From narablog- a blog I visit to see collections of vintage and antique textiles.
Always interesting stuff there.
座布団ブロギング 3 ・ 有松絞り
HOMESPUN, HANDWOVEN COTTON
VAT-DYED IN BOTANICAL INDIGO
手紬、手織り木綿、本愛染め
LATE 19C/EARLY 20C
“mono no aware” is a japanese term most simply translated to awareness in the transient nature of things. shibori is like that to me. yesterday’s pieces while bound and tied for drying held a certain transient beauty for me, and an anticipation of what they would or could become when unbound. when unbound, [...]
Don’t miss the new additions to the flickr shibori photo pool!
Speaking of practicing shibori with kids, whipup has been sending lots of readers my way and thanks for that! (stop a minute and leave a comment!) Someone must have been reading my mind because I am in the planning stages of a two lesson shibori class for some 5th graders at the local elementary [...]
I can really appreciate the perfection of some of the japanese itajime pieces I have seen after practicing this myself. This piece is 11×60″ and was divided into 2 lengthwise pleats before doing a triangle concertina fold. The silk is slippery and not as easy to fold as paper.
I moved the circular blocks several [...]
Watashi wa shibori o seishi desu. My japanese is so bad I’m not sure this is saying what I mean to say!
It needs to say, “I am making shibori”. Perhaps those readers in Japan would like to help me out on that account.
In any case, I am working , making shibori. No [...]
It took Suzuki Kanezo 8 years to invent and perfect the technique of arashi shibori around 1860 in Arimatsu, Japan. Arimatsu was originally one of the 53 rest stations established along the eastern coastal route of Japan, known as the Tokaido. The Tokaido connected the old and new capitals of [...]
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