Margaret-Anne Japan Trip April 2016

On April 2, 2016 am flying via Singapore to Narita Airport, Tokyo to take part in a Japanese Textile Workshop at Fujino, a small village southwest of Tokyo, in the tea growing mountains. I will stay with others in the workshop in a 150 year old farmhouse for 10 days. It will be towards the end of the cherry blossom time in Japan, but am sure to see some. I am getting excited about going soon. I will endeavour to write a daily post here.

I have done 'homework' preparation for the workshop prepared for dyeing there - mokume shibori (woodgrain), additionally I prepared accordion pleated cotton by resist dye techniques to form designs on the fabric. Lastly, I have cut out stencil designs on three pieces of persimmon tannin paper (kakishibugami) in preparation for the katazome method of resist dye using rice paste.

Mokume shibori with threads ready to be pulled up in Japan

Accordion pleated cotton fabric prepared to be pulled up in Japan for shibori dye resist patterns

Persimmon tannin paper stencils cut ready to be used with rice paste to form dye resist patterns in katazome process.

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