http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15739403
I don't know if this will run for our trans-Atlantic cousins, I hope so. In essence it is a short piece on an all too familiar theme of a beautiful craft and art-form slowly dying in the modern world. The difference here that this is the kimono 'industry' in question. I for one would deem it a terrible loss to global culture if the last remaining few weavers and painters were to die out with no successors to carry the beauty and precision, embodied in their cloth, forward into the future.
At £10000 for a quality kimono it is perhaps not surprising that there are few buyers these days as the culture of Japan gradually changes towards a more Western 'feel' for fashion and public expression of 'place'.
I don't know if this will run for our trans-Atlantic cousins, I hope so. In essence it is a short piece on an all too familiar theme of a beautiful craft and art-form slowly dying in the modern world. The difference here that this is the kimono 'industry' in question. I for one would deem it a terrible loss to global culture if the last remaining few weavers and painters were to die out with no successors to carry the beauty and precision, embodied in their cloth, forward into the future.
At £10000 for a quality kimono it is perhaps not surprising that there are few buyers these days as the culture of Japan gradually changes towards a more Western 'feel' for fashion and public expression of 'place'.