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Beautiful Silks Masterclass Yoshiko Wada Yoshiko Wada:Boro Transformed through Indigo Blue: (see full description and materials to bring list further down the page) This workshop is now taking wait lists, as it is fully booked. Sat Sun Monday 28th 29th 30th August 2010
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada is an artist, author, curator, textile researcher and has long been an exponent of traditional and sustainable practices in fashion and textile production. She holds a BFA in Textile Art from Kyoto City Fine Arts University, MFA in Painting from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has studied traditional Japanese silk embroidery, ikat weaving and indigo dyeing.` Melbourne: Saturday Sunday & MondayAugust 28th 29th &30th 2010 Melbourne workshop booking code YW01
Three wonderful days - one workshop - 14 people limit. Further description:. “Boro Transformed through Indigo Blue: Patching, Piecing, Stitching” Hands-on Workshop for artists who are interested in Patchwork, Quilting, Embroidery, Collage, and Indigo dying. 3 Days Suggested Participants will learn about Boro; traditional Japanese folk textiles made with rags and fabric scraps. Students will reinterpret this common practice by creating a fabric collage using layering, piecing, sewing, darning, and then transforming the collage with Indigo dye. Participants will also explore the use of water-soluble sheets to create open, lace-like structures in collage. Participants are welcome to bring their own recycled, used, stained scraps, or motheaten woolens to incorporate into their project. We will use an easy to follow indigo dye method which simulates the organic fermentation vat process. This workshop is inspired by a group of Japanese folk textile and clothing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, such as padded sleeping mattresses and comforters, fisherman’s coats, lumberjack’s vests, and other everyday wear. These were dyed in indigo and extensively patched and darned as necessary, utilizing regional resources to the limit. In my forthcoming book, I am using the Japanese term boro to define a new aesthetic and to bring new meaning to an alternative creative process, e.g., darning = healing, meditative action = marking time, reuse/repair = recording history. "Boro" represents the transformation of inconsequential material to something precious and valuable. Ordinarily, these tattered, castaway rags and the articles pieced together from them would be considered of little to no value. Boro, on the other hand, are viewed as beautiful in a way that defies convention. This type of imperfect beauty possesses a power that resonates with people almost like an emotional barometer. It points to an alternative value of "beauty" slowly coming to surface in our social consciousness.
Cost : $495.00 plus a materials fee of $50 per person which gives you enough materials to complete one large peice and several small peices of cloth. Wada was recently named a “2010 Distinguished Educator Nominee” by the James Renwick Alliance (article to be featured in American Craft Magazine). She received the Japan Foundation Fellowship in 1979 and 1996 wherein the first research yielded the definitive publication, Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing (fourteenth printing, 2008), and led to her second shibori publication, Memory on Cloth: shibori now (fifth printing, 2008). Grants include: the Indo-US Sub commission for Education and Culture; the Matsushita International Foundation; and the Renwick Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Past curatorial appointments include: “The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art to Wear in America,” The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., “Japanese Design: A Survey since the 1950s,” Philadelphia Museum of Art; several shibori and bandhani exhibitions at the National Institute of Design, India; “Shibori: Tradition and Innovation – East to West” and “Ragged Beauty: Repair and Reuse, Past and Present,” Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco. A lecturer since 1992 at Okinawa Prefectural University of Fine Arts and recently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, Wada is President of the World Shibori Network and has served as co-chair of all past International Shibori Symposia (Nagoya, Japan ’92; India ’96; Chile ’99; Australia ’04; UK ’02; Tokyo, Japan ’05; France ‘08). She consults for designers, including previous work with Colleen Atwood for the Hollywood film production, “Memoirs of a Geisha,” and Christina Kim for dosa inc. Yoshiko heads the Slow Fiber Studio ™ movement which promotes culturally and socially responsible practices.
To enrol email: workshops@beautifulsilks.com or call (03) 9419 7745
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