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Keiko Kawashima The Gallery Gallery Gal
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Keiko Kawashima The Gallery Gallery Gal...

Considering Kyoto’s long history of art-textile production and Japan’s prominent place in the world art-textile community, it’s not surprising that Gallery Gallery would make its home in Kyoto.

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Nuno Designing Textiles for the 21st Century
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Nuno Designing Textiles for the 21st Century...

In 1984, Reiko Sudo co-founded Nuno Corporation with Junichi Arai, specializing in the design, production and sale of functional, innovative fabrics. She is Nuno’s director and principal designer. Nuno’s works are in numerous permanent museum collections throughout the world, including a couple of dozen at New York’s MOMA. Inspired by the look of rubber bands on a magazine in a sunny window, Nuno devised a process using resin dyed to the color of rubber bands and applied to cloth in the right thickness through a silk-screen process. Silk is woven with pockets. The computer driven looms must be stopped every few minutes to allow the hand placement of feathers in the pockets. This is a combination of traditionally inspired shibori tie-dye and a modern heat-based pleating process to create an entirely new concept: shibori with pleats. In-layering. Here silk organdy is shot through with strips of traditional, handmade Japanese washi paper. In this textile, wool has been embroidered into polyester. For this, Nuno used an industrial process for converting re-cycled plastic PET bottles into felt for shoulder pads and linings. Instead of plastic, however, they use comfortable raw wool and alpaca. The process involves applying high pressure water jets and needle-punching to create a stronger bond. Then they add leftovers from their own huge stock of Nuno textile scraps to form what they call Terazzo Felt. Inspired by the way rust stained white work clothes, and after considerable trial and error, they sandwich iron plates between two layers of rayon, cover it with a blanket (electric blanket in winter) and then let it sit for two days. They then rinse off the fabric and the rust is set into the cloth. Unstructuring is a processs where the threads of a 4-layer cotton weave have...

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A lifelong Japanophile, Steve Beimel founded the Japan operations for Esprit Travel & Tours in the early 1990′s, as a U.S.-based tour company now specializing in culturally focused tours to Japan and catering to enthusiasts of the arts. Over the years, he has worked with many masters of traditional culture in ceramics, textiles, architecture, gardens, music, cuisine and religion. He now lives with his wife Ritsuko in the northern foothills of Kyoto.

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