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, […]
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, […]
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 in Boro - The Art of Necessity, a recent exhibition by The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, National Museum of World Culture, Stockholm, Sweden. What […]
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, […]
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 story […]
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 […]
