Introduction:
The photos in this post came from my post when we were in Okinawa. You can search on my home page for: Japan Tour 2017. Then scroll to Day 5.
We visited the artist Michiko Uehara and her daughter in Naha Okinawa in May 2017. She has exhibited in New York as well as in Japan. Here her daughter is showing how light this cloth is. Michiko reels her silk threads and weaves very, very fine cloth.
This cloth was woven with both warp and weft threads from single cocoons. In her catalog there is a photo of a cloth with threads of 3 denier. That means 1,5000,000 yards per pound. I’m not sure if that is this cloth or not, but you get the idea. That’s 1.5 million yards per pound!
This piece is double woven in a tube!!!
It is amazing to me that human hands can make things like this.
Thank you for sharing these memories.
This is so wonderful as art and the nature behind it-it is like the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin but better- its own kind of straw into gold. Thank. you for sharing.