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Notes on textiles

Field reports, technique, and the people keeping this tradition alive.

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Dye

The vat that's alive

Why real indigo ferments before it ever touches cloth.

Weave

Kasuri: patterns dyed before the loom

Blurred motifs planned thread by thread.

Use

One cloth, a hundred wraps

Furoshiki and the art of carrying by knot.