As you would know Tokyo is hosting the Olympic Games in 2020 and it is good to see that the Japanese are using the occasion to promote all kinds of national culture. One such cultural item is the kimono. Imagine One World Kimono is a project to design and make 196 kimonos to represent every [...]
We came across this fascinating article about a traditional way of making washi using recycled ingredients and using a machine which is easier to use than the big vats so that one person can do one thousand large sheets in a day! It turns out that Nishijima is not that far from where we live [...]
In April this year we took a group of 6 genki (energetic) ladies (Ann, Helen, Jen, Renate, Susan and Tricia) during the spring sakura (cherry) blossom season for a 14-day shumistay program focussed on nuno and washi shumis (textiles and paper). Even though the blossoms were two weeks early this year we caught them at [...]
