effective use of kudzu make gorgeous fabric with kudzu workshop

See you at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Lobby 13:00 16 Aug.2011

14:00　visit to Japan arts & crafts Museum
and Japanese crafts center
17:00 stay at Hotel
19:00 dinner free

6:50 leave hotel
7:10 take Shinkansen super express
8:44 arrive at Shimada Hotel
9:30 join Ougawa kudzu fabric center
10:30 reape of kudzu
12:30 lunch
13:30 boil of kudzu put kudzu into bed
17:00 hotel

9:00 lecture
12:00 free lunch
13:00 lecture of how to make threads
how to set warp
6:30 dinner at [UDZUKI](kappo ryouri , Japanese traditional dishes)

9:00 vegetable dyeing
12:30 lunch at [Ocya no sato]
13:30 see Ocya no sato(Tea museum)
dinner free

9:00 wash kudzu
12:00 lunch
in the evening hot spring
dinner free

weave
lunch at Yoshizenn
leave studio for Tokyo

visit old clothes shop
13:00　good by

All days $3000
only workshop $2150
breakfast will serve all days
lunch will serve four times all days
dinner will serve a time all days

Kudzu cloth was one of the most oldest clothe that Humankind wore　at the very first of his history.It is made of kudzu vine .It is one of the three great ancient clothes in Japan. The others are Shina-fu(Linden fabric) and Basyo-fu. Kudzu is still woven in the Shizuoka Prefecture Enshu area by us.

Every year people join our workshop from all over Japan . They were university student ,
housewife , school teacher , carpenter , researcher・・・etc. One of them was a Russian researcher who research old Japanese fabric　as a member of museum stuff.
Everyone who joined our workshop had nice character ,so they made friends each other soon .
They have kept contact till now and meet several times a year. That so pleased us.

- The 1st Kudzu cloth workshop
4. to 8th in August 2010
- The 2nd Kudzu cloth workshop
25th to 29th in August 2010

1st day cultivate kudzu and boil it . ferment it in bed which is made of silver grass leaves.
2nd day lecture. history of kudzu 　mean of color・・・etc. feast at night
3rd day: vegetable dyeing class
4th day: wash kudzu in river
5th day weave the kudzu fabric

WorkShop fee

$125/day

- Content
1st Day..lecture history of cotton , tools for spinning・・・etc.
2nd day cultivate cotton balls at cotton field
3rd Day Vegetable dyeing class
4th day weave with cotton yarn you made

Lecturer Mr.Tomohiko Terada and Mr.& Mrs. Murai

you can contact us by E-mail ,for further more information
tel +0547-45-4151 Fax +0547-45-3200
〒428-0021
1747 kanayakawara Shimada city Shizuoka Prefecture Japan


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