The kimono garment, the national dress of Japan, carries within itself all of the magic and traditions of Japanese ...

After the embroidery is complete, a trained kimono dressmaker hand-sews the embroidered cotton fabric onto a lining of silk brocade to create fukuro (pouch-style) obi. In hand-wrought decorative ...

Different dyes and embroidery have always been used to add creative flair and variety to the kimono. Toshihiro Yamaguchi stretches out his seaweed glue starched silk to dry outside. The length of ...

This latest collection is inspired by the richly embroidered back of her well-loved, vintage silk kimono, hence the exhibition’s title - The Silk. The Gisborne painter works out of her home ...