Clothing & Cloth in Kyoto

I am writing this quick entry in the last hour of my stay in Kyoto...
....or so I thought...
Blog entries take careful thought & crafting.
No hour-long job, at least, not for me.

This first piece is by a technique called katazome. It's very like batik, except the resist is not wax but a rice paste. It is applied to the cloth by stencil and a stiff brush with the paste on it. This was then indigo dip dyed several times with drying in between dippings..

I was so happy to come to Japan because of textiles.
I have worked in indigo & know some of the Japanese traditions. 
Some of these were invented by other cultures. How marvelous is that? I do marvel at it.

So photos of the cloth & clothing I saw here.

So let's start with doorways... many restaurants have these cloths... & some businesses...

...then there are clothes... oh my!!...

...I'll take ANY or all of those scarves at Narita Airport!...

...the shop people are so unhappy seeing me take these photos!

Near the Bamboo Forest, at the station was a Kimono Forest...

 This next section is from textile art students...

Then the Kyoto Shibori Museum... bringing tie-dyeing to a high art.... over the top beautiful!! First, their poster...

...below...from the student show... micro view... this is a salt technique... one grain of salt will push away the dye... 

The many suspended panels... so lovely!!

And below, a silk screen left over from a print job.

...That's it for now...