Installation view of Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics; items from right to left: Bodoko (mat), late Edo to early Showa period, (1800-1950s), hemp and cotton; Kotatsu blanket, late Edo to early ...

If there is one overlooked corner of fashion history, it has to be Japanese textiles. For hundreds of years, Japanese craftspeople have made high-end fabrics from plant fibers and silk. Today, some of ...

Sudō Reiko and Nuno, Vitrine (photo courtesy the Center for Hertiage Arts & Textile Hong Kong) Growing up in a small country town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, Sudō Reiko always looked forward to the ...

Specialty: At Sri Threads in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Stephen Szczepanek deals in Japanese textiles from the early 18th century to the 20th, with a specialty in boro, traditional cloths made from ...

A handpicked selection of 22 notable Japanese textile companies were recently exhibited at the Japan Textile Salon, hosted by the Japan External Trade Organization, a government-based firm. The show ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MILAN — Hosoo, the Kyoto-based luxury textiles brand that has expertise in kimono silk through Nishijin weaving for more than ...

The rebirth of the Japanese textile industry is one of the success stories of the postwar years. With little U.S. help, the rebuilt and modernized industry produces 37% of Japan’s vitally needed ...

In Collaboration with American Chambers of Commerce (ACCJ), we host the the first arts program for 2021. It is something new from the ACCJ Alternative Investment Committee (AIC) on textile as an ...

The old Massapoag mill on the outskirts of the little North Carolina court house town of Lincolnton (pop. 5,423) looks like many another small Southern textile mill from its brick exterior. But aside ...

Hélène Gascuel, Textiles Curator of the Guimet Asian Art Museum in Paris, speaks about the traditional Japanese art of crafting kimonos, this loose, flat and T-shaped garment with square sleeves ...