Saturdays, 18 & 25 September, 2021 | 15:00 - 18:00 PST/ Next Day 7:00 - 10:00 Japan ZOOM Webinar | Slow Fiber Studios ANNEX | 1825 8th St. Berkeley, CA Stitching as a way of resisting the dye has been explored by the Japanese artisans to a greater extent than by other peoples. Nui (nuu) … Continue reading
Michel will introduce a revolutionary method of extracting indigo pigment in the form of fresh paste from powdered dried leaves of Indigofera plants. This method can be used in your home studio without having access to a field of indigo plants at their time of harvest. Michel will demonstrate the advantages of this fresh indigo … Continue reading
Michel will introduce a revolutionary method of extracting indigo pigment in the form of fresh paste from powdered dried leaves of Indigofera plants. This method can be used in your home studio without having access to a field of indigo plants at their time of harvest. Michel will demonstrate the advantages of this fresh pigment … Continue reading
Hiroshi Murase, Master Arimatsu Shibori Artisan. | Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada will moderate and translate the workshop. Saturday 06 November 2021 | 15:00 - 18:00 PST / 7:00 - 10:00 JST (next day) ZOOM Webinar | Slow Fiber Studios ANNEX | 1825 8th St. Berkeley, CA In Japan, stitching as a way of resisting the dye … Continue reading
Hiroshi Murase, Master Arimatsu Shibori Artisan. | Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada will moderate and translate the workshop. Saturday 20 November 2021 | 15:00 – 18:00 PST / 7:00 – 10:00 JST (next day) ZOOM Webinar | Slow Fiber Studios ANNEX | 1825 8th St. Berkeley, CA “Aobana” (blue flower) is a traditionally used fugitive ink that … Continue reading
'Portrait of a Wave', 2014-15. Kaoli Mashio TALKS by HIROYUKI MURASE & KAOLI MASHIO 10:00-11:30 PST / $35 Contribution / $25 WSN members will receive a $10 discount code by email. IN-PERSON at Berkeley Annex (limited number of fully vaccinated people), or ON-WEBINAR A RECORDING will be sent to all participants within a week. … Continue reading
January 27, 2022 Thursday | 10:00-11:00 PST Episode 1 - Japanese Boro: Etymology and Material Reality, the Beginning of Yoshiko’s PhD journey in England | Q&A Yoshiko will expand the dimensions of her essay in the catalog for the Boro–The Art of Necessity exhibition. Over the course of history, before the term “boro” became established, … Continue reading
February 3, 2022 Thursday | 10:00-11:00 PST Episode 2 - Sashiko: A Story of Japanese Folk Stitchery | Q&A This story covers sashiko’s history and regional styles from the snow countries of the Northeast to the islands in the South. Some of the sashiko work-clothing overlaps with the story of boro. When cotton became available, … Continue reading
Yoshiko I. Wada will be facilitating the conversation from Leicester, England with Takao Momiyama from Simrishamn, Skåne County, Sweden. Momi-san is an artist and sashiko and boro practitioner whose work appeared … Continue reading
In Atsushi's words, "Sashiko is more than just 'technique:' While teaching Sashiko in English, sharing stories about Sashiko on SNS, I realize that the Sashiko introduced in English is NOT wrong, but insufficient. In fact, they are missing the most delicious part of the essence of Sashiko. With sharing stories about the Sashiko we practice, … Continue reading
Join us for a talk by textile scholar, researcher, and Chinese boro collector, Gao Yu, also former intern to Yoshiko Wada at Slow Fiber Studios. He translated to Chinese, the book, The Roots of Asian Weaving: The He Haiyan collection of textiles and looms from Southwest China Hardcover – November 30, 2015 Gao Yu’s … Continue reading
Join Slow Fiber Studios for a talk by Tomoko Torimaru, textile scholar and author of, One Needle, One Thread: Miao (Hmong) Embroidery and Fabric Piecework from Guizhou, China (EN). Tomoko Torimaru’s research into the vital human technology of needle and thread takes us back to what she believes must be up to 100,000 years in … Continue reading