陸前高田市を「丸ごと支援」の名古屋市職員たち 「交流を通じて貢献を」：中日新聞Web chunichi.co.jp - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chunichi.co.jp Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ana Lisa Hedstrom ended the premier series on how Arimatsu artisans created new textile designs when faced with foreign trade opportunities, post WWII. Highlighting upon two key points, how global trade is a persistent catalyst for innovations and how artisans and artists are adaptable when met with new challenges and limitations that give birth to more possibilities.
Episode 4: Ana Lisa Hedstrom and
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, 2021.
To produce bold designs on broadcloth efficiently for the African market (1934-37 and 1945-1950), the Arimatsu artisans created a new shibori technique called
kikai-sekka, a compression-resist using a sewing machine on broadcloth or glossy cloth for a popular market. To better understand this under-researched historical period, with limited historical records, Yoshiko and Ana Lisa focused on, how Arimatsu artisans legitimized the sewing machine as an extension of hand-tools and created innovative designs by adding complexity with prints, wovens, and t