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Early Cloth: Tapa and Felt
LIXIL Gallery 1 & 2
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Tapa and felt are early types of fabric that were made by hand and utilized commonly available plants or wool. It is believed that they were used long before the technology for weaving was developed. This exhibition looks at tapa and felt that has been used in daily life since ancient times on the South Pacific islands and in regions of Southeast Asia, showing the attraction of tapa and felt as simple, strong, non-woven fabrics.
Displayed in the gallery are some 60 precious examples collected by Shigeki Fukumoto, who has commuted to the South Pacific islands for over 30 years to research tapa, and Goro Nagano, who researched pressed felt technologies in Southeast Asia primarily in the 1990s. Visitors will be struck by the toughness of these early cloths and by their designs and textures, which combine boldness and delicacy to attain a beauty symbolic of ethnic culture. Through these non-woven fabrics infused with ethnic traditions and skills inherited over many years, the exhibition offers a chance to encounter the ancient beginnings of human technology and the arts of dyeing and weaving.
[Related Event]
Talk Event “The story before woven textiles - From field work”
Date: Jan. 27 (Sat), 2018, 14:00-15:30
Speakers: Fukumoto Shigeki (dye artist, director of The Society for Ethno-Arts), Hiroko Iwatate (director of Iwatate Folk Textile Museum)
Venue: AGC Studio, 2F Kyobashi soseikan, 2-5-18 Kyobashi, Chuo, Tokyo 104-0031
Admission: Free (booking required)
Capacity: 80
*Please see the official website for booking and further information.
*Event in Japanese.
Displayed in the gallery are some 60 precious examples collected by Shigeki Fukumoto, who has commuted to the South Pacific islands for over 30 years to research tapa, and Goro Nagano, who researched pressed felt technologies in Southeast Asia primarily in the 1990s. Visitors will be struck by the toughness of these early cloths and by their designs and textures, which combine boldness and delicacy to attain a beauty symbolic of ethnic culture. Through these non-woven fabrics infused with ethnic traditions and skills inherited over many years, the exhibition offers a chance to encounter the ancient beginnings of human technology and the arts of dyeing and weaving.
[Related Event]
Talk Event “The story before woven textiles - From field work”
Date: Jan. 27 (Sat), 2018, 14:00-15:30
Speakers: Fukumoto Shigeki (dye artist, director of The Society for Ethno-Arts), Hiroko Iwatate (director of Iwatate Folk Textile Museum)
Venue: AGC Studio, 2F Kyobashi soseikan, 2-5-18 Kyobashi, Chuo, Tokyo 104-0031
Admission: Free (booking required)
Capacity: 80
*Please see the official website for booking and further information.
*Event in Japanese.
Schedule | Dec 7 (Thu) 2017-Feb 24 (Sat) 2018 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://www1.lixil.co.jp/gallery/exhibition/detail/d_003846.html | ||||||
| Venue | LIXIL Gallery 1 & 2 https://www.livingculture.lixil/en/gallery/ | ||||||
| Location | 2F LIXIL:Ginza Tokyo Tatemono Kyobashi Bldg., 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 | ||||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 2 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 3 minute walk from exit 6 at Ginza-itchome Station on the Yurakucho line, 3 minute walk from exit A4 at Takaracho Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-5250-6530 | ||||||
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