Peggy’s Weaving Tour – Japan Day 4

Every day on my weaving tour of Japan and the Philippines I will repost all of my InstaGram posts here on my blog. I hope you enjoy my adventures.

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Day 4. This is the view on the way back to our hotel from breakfast.

A photo posted by Peggy Osterkamp (@peggyoster) on Jan 29, 2016 at 5:13am PST

This is the view facing people going home in rush hour heading for the subway. This was at 9:00 pm and rush hour was still going strong.

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Our first stop today was across the street from our hotel. It's a great costume museum with exhibits o. Two floors. This show had a lot of folk costumes as well as Japanese kimonos. Some of the children's' kimonos were with good luck amulets embroidered on the backs. The museum info follows.

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The costume museum information. It is connected to a fashion school. It's been fun watching the young students passing by on their way to class when we go out for breakfast.

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Our second stop tardy was this wonderful small museum. This is a place we visit on every trip.

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These woolen textiles from India aren't widely known. They were mostly made in the homes. A few gorgeously fine ones were woven with hand spun pashmina fiber. It is from under the chins of goats and incredibly soft. The goats shed in the spring when the weather gets warm and the fiber is collected then traditionally.

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What we call "paisley" we're woven with fine pashmina from this area of northern India. The shape we call paisley was and is called boteh. Later wHen they were in Scotland the people named it paisley after the shape of a river there. Actually the shape was man made relating to mangos and plants and vines.

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The map shows the northern part of India where the woolen textiles were from– part of the Himalayas.

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