Sunday, May 13, 2012

Escaping to Kyoto



Serizawa Keisuke
1895 - 1984. Textile designer and dyer. Another champion of the Mingei movement, and a pioneer in stencil dyeing, who joined the Mingei Movement after reading a paper by Yanagi in 1925. Designated a Living National Treasure in 1956. His work drew much inspiration from the "bingata" dyeing process of Okinawa.   

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