Textile-dyeing
Textiles are a marvelously versatile material. They can be unfolded and spread out or neatly folded away. They can be used to wrap things, as traditional furoshiki or to act as a screen affording privacy, as with the noren which appear in Japanese doorways in the summer. My aim is to create designs that recognise and enhance the versatility of the fabrics.

 

 

Kimono with gathering clouds
1969
(The Japanese Folk Crafts Museum Collection)
Kimono with cloud pattern
1970

 

 

Wall hanging
1982
(The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Craft Gallery Collection)

People in Row
1982

 

 

People patterns
1993
Twist
1995

 

 

 

Wave
2001
Looking for Sprouts
2002