Dyeing kimono offers the possibility of self-expression not only in each single design itself, but also in the dramatic image that it creates when the kimono is laid as a patterned piece.

‘Kimono’, Hand-woven Japanese silk, Color Stencil-dye. Both traditional and modern motives blend into a single sight of an imaginary well-ordered garden.

‘Kimono’, Hand-woven Japanese silk, Color and Indigo Stencil-dye. Traditional flower motives blend with modern leaves, in a two-toned indigo background. This kimono images a summer meadow in the wild. When observing it carefully, the meadow uncovers the distinctiveness of each flower, of each leaf, as Nature does.

‘Kimono’, Hand-woven Japanese Banana fiber from Ishigaki island, Indigo stencil-dye. Modern motives of stylized flowers treated with traditional dyeing method using solely different tones of indigo color.