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Giving It All You’ve Got
The below text is part of a talk given at The Australian Design Centre on April 17 2021 to coincide with exhibition of the work Gingham All You’ve Got. Gingham All You’ve Got is a textile piece that re-imagines the humble checked work shirt as a textile asset of multiple uses. Decommissioned cotton business shirts…
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Ohara Koubou and Kusakizome Methodology.
I’ve been exploring the Japanese plant dye process kusakizome (草木染め) over the last few months, challenging myself with loosening a lot of the dyeing methodology I’ve become familiar with over the years and embracing the sometimes complex Japanese method. The abundance of available natural dyestuffs in Japan is staggering, and the different process used to extract colour…
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![Rug or floor mat made usinf reductive textile methods – Japanese cotton yukata are torn, braided then hand-stitched.]()
Reductive Textiles
We’ve been lucky to call Kyoto home for almost a year now. Looking around our little wooden house, large in comparison to anything we could afford in Sydney and filled with scattered cosy mess, it feels like we’ve properly settled in. Whilst the first half of this year was spent relaying between immigration bureaus and real estate offices,…
