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 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....
The Eloquence of Small Things
An idea arrives once, if you are lucky, and changes the angle of everything. On the antidote to noise: the particular eloquence of a single made object, and what it...
The Eloquence of Small Things
An idea arrives once, if you are lucky, and changes the angle of everything. On the antidote to noise: the particular eloquence of a single made object, and what it...
The Sleeping Surface
The nagajuban, the silk underrobe beneath the kimono and seen by no one but the wearer: on pattern made for private knowledge, the most discreet luxury.
The Sleeping Surface
The nagajuban, the silk underrobe beneath the kimono and seen by no one but the wearer: on pattern made for private knowledge, the most discreet luxury.
The Grammar of Colour
Iro, the Japanese word for colour, also means feeling. On the Heian system of two hundred named hues, and how ceremonial silk still speaks that grammar.
The Grammar of Colour
Iro, the Japanese word for colour, also means feeling. On the Heian system of two hundred named hues, and how ceremonial silk still speaks that grammar.
The Patchin
The patchin is the traditional Japanese bag handle: two turned wooden rods, joined by the silk body of the bag. The silk loops over the rods and the weight of...
The Patchin
The patchin is the traditional Japanese bag handle: two turned wooden rods, joined by the silk body of the bag. The silk loops over the rods and the weight of...