Journal
Essays on Japanese textile history, craft, and the culture of ceremonial silk — alongside guides to caring for and living with ceremonial silk objects.
The Sleeping Surface
There is a garment that most people who have never worn a kimono have never heard of. It is the nagajuban — the underrobe worn beneath the kimono, next to...
The Sleeping Surface
There is a garment that most people who have never worn a kimono have never heard of. It is the nagajuban — the underrobe worn beneath the kimono, next to...
The Grammar of Colour
There is a word in Japanese — iro (色) — that means colour, and yet it also means, in its deeper register, feeling, desire, the visible world. Colour, in the...
The Grammar of Colour
There is a word in Japanese — iro (色) — that means colour, and yet it also means, in its deeper register, feeling, desire, the visible world. Colour, in the...
The Patchin
There is a small wooden object that sits in the palm with quiet authority — smooth, warm, dense with the gravity of well-worked timber. It has no brand embossed on...
The Patchin
There is a small wooden object that sits in the palm with quiet authority — smooth, warm, dense with the gravity of well-worked timber. It has no brand embossed on...
The Cloth That Remembered Everything
I keep a furoshiki on the hook by my door. It is not particularly old — maybe forty years, cotton, indigo-dyed somewhere in the Kansai region. I use it for...
The Cloth That Remembered Everything
I keep a furoshiki on the hook by my door. It is not particularly old — maybe forty years, cotton, indigo-dyed somewhere in the Kansai region. I use it for...
Cherry Blossom Season in Japan — What It Taught...
There is a week in Japan — just one week, sometimes less — when the entire country holds its breath. The cherry blossoms open. The sakura. Not the deep pink...
Cherry Blossom Season in Japan — What It Taught...
There is a week in Japan — just one week, sometimes less — when the entire country holds its breath. The cherry blossoms open. The sakura. Not the deep pink...
Welcome to The Silk Journal
There are objects in the world that carry more than beauty. A length of hand-woven silk, folded away in a Japanese tansu chest for fifty years. A Fukuro Obi that...
Welcome to The Silk Journal
There are objects in the world that carry more than beauty. A length of hand-woven silk, folded away in a Japanese tansu chest for fifty years. A Fukuro Obi that...