Talk: KYOTO Design Lab Series II: Exploring Tango Chirimen – Surface, Japan House London

Deconstructed Geometry, 2020

In collaboration with KYOTO Design Lab (D-lab), Japan House London delves into the contemporary take on chirimen, a type of silk crêpe made of flat-woven silk originating in the northernmost region of Kyoto Prefecture known as Tango through a series of talks this May.

The second event focussing on ‘Surface’ hosts textile designers Okamoto Shioka in Japan and Kangan Arora in London to present their innovative projects investigating the possibilities offered by chirimen as a printing surface. Okamoto’s work Sensory Pleasure proposes an alternative way of processing the plain fabric into a three-dimensional surface, while Arora’s Deconstructed Geometry is a response to the Chirimen archive at the Textile Research Centre in Kyōtango and Japanese colour as illustrated in the Dictionary of Colour Combinations by artist and costume designer Wada Sanzō, who helped establish the Japan Standard Colour Association in the early 1920s.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 12:00-13:00 BST / 20:00-21:00 JPN
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