Journal
Essays on Japanese textile history, craft, and the culture of ceremonial silk — alongside guides to caring for and living with ceremonial silk objects.
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,...
The Chromatic Harvest — 草木染め
What a European eye notices first in Japanese ceremonial silk is the colour. An indigo that is not quite navy, not quite violet. A gold that has aged away from...
The Chromatic Harvest — 草木染め
What a European eye notices first in Japanese ceremonial silk is the colour. An indigo that is not quite navy, not quite violet. A gold that has aged away from...
KOYOMI — The 72 Micro-Seasons
The traditional Japanese calendar did not divide the year into four seasons. It divided it into 72: micro-seasons of roughly five days each, each named for a specific natural event....
KOYOMI — The 72 Micro-Seasons
The traditional Japanese calendar did not divide the year into four seasons. It divided it into 72: micro-seasons of roughly five days each, each named for a specific natural event....