Conversations with Cloth Series 3 – Winter/Spring/Summer 2022 “Stitchery Stories”
Greetings from the World Shibori Network (WSN) and Slow Fiber Studios (SFS). We are leaping into the New Year, strengthening our technology platform and supporting our ever-expanding global paradigm and mission for empowering diverse communities of artists, designers, and artisans.
WSN is pleased to announce Stitchery Stories, a new set of programs in the Conversations with Cloth (CwC) series. We will be sharing presentations by textile scholars, designers, and practitioners that we anticipate will be relevant and exciting to our textile community.
PLEASE SUPPORT WORLD SHIBORI NETWORK & SLOW FIBER STUDIOS, BY JOINING CONVERSATIONS WITH CLOTH EVENTS!
Conversations Series 3, Episode 1 ‘Japanese Boro: Etymology and Material Reality, the Beginning of Yoshiko’s PhD journey in England’
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 […]
Conversations Series 3, Episode 2 ‘Sashiko: A Story of Japanese Folk Stitchery’
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 […]
Conversations Series 3, Episode 3 ‘Japanese Stitchery Now: Story of Sashiko in Sweden by Takao Momiyama’
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 […]
Conversations Series 3, Episode 4 ‘Japanese Stitchery Now: Story of Sashiko Today with speaker Atsushi Futatsuya’
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 […]
Conversations Series 3, Episode 5 ‘Chinese Stitchery Stories: Story of Boro in China by Gao Yu’
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 […]
Conversations Series 3, Episode 6 ‘Chinese Stitchery Story: Tracing Textile Technology to Its Origins & Miao Embroidery by Tomoko Torimaru’
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 […]