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  • Preparation for the New Year

    In Japan the New Year Holiday is the most important event, just like Christmas is for most people in Europe and North America.  Between 13th and 28...
    Posted in Hanmade, Japanese ceramic, Made in Japan, New Year, Silk, Suzani

  • Shichi-go-san event

    Shichi-go-san is a Japanese event to celebrate the children's growth when the girls turn three and seven years old and boys turn five years old. Th...

  • Kogin Zashi needle-work

    Kogin Zashi is one of the 3 top techniques of Japanese traditional decorative reinforcement stiching that originated in current Aomori Prefecture i...

  • Japanese pottery - Mino ware

    Mino ware is a kind of pottery produced in Mino region, in Gifu Prefecture in central part of Japan.  Its history started around 1300 years ago and...

  • Chusen dye (dye blocking method)

    Chusen is a kind of dye blocking method using glue, that is often used for dying a Tenugui textile.Using a combination of different kinds of seawee...

  • Lao textile - Phaa biang shawl

    Phaa biang is a shawl like fabric worn on the upeer body as a formal wear in Laos. This is for the women and men wear phaa biang shawls for wedding...

  • Various Lao textiles - ikats of Phuan

    The Phuan tribe comes from the former Phuan KIndgom around the current Xieng Kuang Province in the current central east Laos. As it has border with...