Journal
Essays on Japanese textile history, craft, and the culture of ceremonial silk — alongside guides to caring for and living with ceremonial silk objects.
Japanese Obi Silk Lumbar Pillows: A Buyer’s Guide
A Japanese obi silk lumbar pillow is cut from the narrow, formally woven sash worn with a kimono — one section of ceremonial brocade becomes the face of the cushion....
Japanese Obi Silk Lumbar Pillows: A Buyer’s Guide
A Japanese obi silk lumbar pillow is cut from the narrow, formally woven sash worn with a kimono — one section of ceremonial brocade becomes the face of the cushion....
What Is Japanese Obi Wall Art? A Buyer's Guide
Japanese obi wall art is a woven silk obi — the wide sash worn with a kimono — mounted on a rod or frame so it hangs as a vertical...
What Is Japanese Obi Wall Art? A Buyer's Guide
Japanese obi wall art is a woven silk obi — the wide sash worn with a kimono — mounted on a rod or frame so it hangs as a vertical...
Why Boutique Hotels Are Acquiring Unrepeatable ...
There is a moment hoteliers recognise. A guest checks in, walks to their room, and comes back to the desk. Not because something is wrong. Because something stopped them. They...
Why Boutique Hotels Are Acquiring Unrepeatable ...
There is a moment hoteliers recognise. A guest checks in, walks to their room, and comes back to the desk. Not because something is wrong. Because something stopped them. They...
The Silk We Forgot
Before there were borders or nations, before the word luxury had been invented and quietly ruined, there was a thread. On the five-thousand-year origins of silk and the memory that...
The Silk We Forgot
Before there were borders or nations, before the word luxury had been invented and quietly ruined, there was a thread. On the five-thousand-year origins of silk and the memory that...
The Architecture of Silence
There is a quality of silence that belongs only to rooms where nothing is trying too hard. On how Japanese ceremonial silk carries that quality — the weight of occasion,...
The Architecture of Silence
There is a quality of silence that belongs only to rooms where nothing is trying too hard. On how Japanese ceremonial silk carries that quality — the weight of occasion,...
Hana-fubuki
Hana-fubuki — flower snowstorm — is the Japanese word for the moment when cherry blossoms fall all at once. An essay on mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of impermanence,...
Hana-fubuki
Hana-fubuki — flower snowstorm — is the Japanese word for the moment when cherry blossoms fall all at once. An essay on mono no aware, the bittersweet awareness of impermanence,...