About the Workshop

Katazome is a traditional Japanese print and dye technique that uses rice paste. Participants will create their own designs and then make templates by cutting out designs on Japanese katazome paper using craft knives. Once their templates are ready, they will apply a homemade rice paste using Japanese katazome brushes to their templates on natural fabrics. They will then dip the fabric into indigo dye. Participants will produce three/four A4-sized pieces with the same design in the workshop. Participants will take a recipe for the rice paste home.

About the Tutor

Emi is a Japanese textile artist and designer based in Northamptonshire specialised in hand weaving with natural materials and natural dyeing. She launched her slow fashion garment collection in 2021. She is also trained as a Japanese Sukumo Indigo Dyer in Japan and she is planning to set up a Japanese Sukumo Indigo Studio in her 17th-century limestone house in Northamptonshire.

She is also influenced by the study of traditional textiles, techniques and materials inspired by Confucius words, who said: "We can learn new things from the past". She loves to explore different countries and find traditional materials, techniques and ideas. She has developed her own style to express her art which is based in a Japanese identity with European influences.