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 Japandi Interior Styling Guide: Where Japan...
Japandi combines Japanese and Scandinavian design from a shared philosophical position: that quality is determined by material honesty and appropriate scale rather than decoration. This guide describes where the two...
The Japandi Interior Styling Guide: Where Japan...
Japandi combines Japanese and Scandinavian design from a shared philosophical position: that quality is determined by material honesty and appropriate scale rather than decoration. This guide describes where the two...
Japanese Ceremonial Silk Care: A Complete Guide...
Japanese ceremonial obi silk is a compound textile: a pure silk ground, patterned with floated supplementary wefts, often gilt paper wound around silk cores. Water attacks the gilt. Dry-cleaning solvents...
Japanese Ceremonial Silk Care: A Complete Guide...
Japanese ceremonial obi silk is a compound textile: a pure silk ground, patterned with floated supplementary wefts, often gilt paper wound around silk cores. Water attacks the gilt. Dry-cleaning solvents...
What is Wabi-Sabi Interior Design? A Guide to t...
Wabi-sabi is often described as a Japanese aesthetic: imperfection, asymmetry, natural materials. The description is accurate but insufficient. Wabi-sabi is first a philosophy about impermanence, and only secondarily a guide...
What is Wabi-Sabi Interior Design? A Guide to t...
Wabi-sabi is often described as a Japanese aesthetic: imperfection, asymmetry, natural materials. The description is accurate but insufficient. Wabi-sabi is first a philosophy about impermanence, and only secondarily a guide...
Kimono Obi Home Decor: Reimagining Japanese Cer...
A guide to the four primary uses of Japanese ceremonial obi silk in the home: wall art, table runners, lumbar pillow covers, and placemats. On the material, the craft, and...
Kimono Obi Home Decor: Reimagining Japanese Cer...
A guide to the four primary uses of Japanese ceremonial obi silk in the home: wall art, table runners, lumbar pillow covers, and placemats. On the material, the craft, and...
Japanese Table Runner Ideas: Placing Japanese C...
The table runner occupies the exact visual centre of the dining table, the place where the eye lands first. Yet it is usually an afterthought, pulled from a linen drawer....
Japanese Table Runner Ideas: Placing Japanese C...
The table runner occupies the exact visual centre of the dining table, the place where the eye lands first. Yet it is usually an afterthought, pulled from a linen drawer....
How to Display Japanese Silk Wall Art
A piece of Japanese ceremonial silk carries weight: not just physical weight, but the weight of ceremony, of a specific occasion in Japanese cultural life. Displaying it well is therefore...
How to Display Japanese Silk Wall Art
A piece of Japanese ceremonial silk carries weight: not just physical weight, but the weight of ceremony, of a specific occasion in Japanese cultural life. Displaying it well is therefore...