Murai sensei is my teacher. She is quite amazing. I love her voice, her energy and the love she has towards her students. She used to be a preschool teacher but retired early to teach shiborizome. Her atelier is in Kiyose, near Tokyo. There, she teaches her students shibori techniques, patiently, one by one. These…
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small indigo farm and dyeing studio in Misakicho, Okayama.
岡山の美咲町にある小さな藍染工房
dots to dots
My DNA, memee Nana, who was sewing all the time. My grandma Tino, who knitted sweaters for me, and my mom, who made ridiculous clothes and costumes for us! About the banana dress, I probably asked her to make that for me, and it was not a costume! Growing up, my great-grandmother was a seamstress,…
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