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 ...

The art of Japanese Textile Making is an exhibtion on view through Dec. 9 at the Design Museum at UC Davis. Lunchables are Arts Blog features about exhibitions that can be viewed during lunch or ...

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 ...

Boro is a style of fabric mending that became known for its use of limited, natural materials. Several brands these days, from Patagonia to Reformation, upcycle their clothes to make trendy new ...

Foreword / by Caroline Kennedy -- Introduction / by Naomi Pollock -- Fuwa fuwa. Fuwa fuwa / by Haruki Murakami ; Portrait of a textile: Jellyfish -- Shiwa shiwa. Shiwa shiwa / by Kenya Hara ; Portrait ...

We are constantly digging deeper for eco designers who are reworking the threads of sustainable style with new offshoots of innovative textiles and refashioned couture. There seems to be quite a few ...

Ms. Sharon Takeda offered her comments on her career in art and how the LACMA collection has been accumulated. Art career and exhibitions Ms. Takeda was born into a third-generation Japanese-American ...

A slender-framed bamboo chair, electrolytically coloured steel furniture and tiles pigmented with micro-algae feature in this roundup of products exhibited at Designtide Tokyo. Designtide Tokyo, a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of first things Florence Müller’s did after being named fashion curator at the Denver Art Museum just over a year ago was what any fashion lover would do ...