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| Inside the front door of Nui-Ya |
After visiting Yamauchi-sensui in the morning and having lunch, we go to his family's store Nui-Ya which sells his work but also has shibori-stitched, indigo-dyed and other fabric techniques from around the world, especially Africa.
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| Nui-Ya store sign |
A huge indigo-dyed tritik-stitched piece hangs directly across the room from the front door and is the first piece I notice. Close up it's even better with beautiful workmanship and excellent dyeing. (Tritik is a whip stitch technique from West Africa.)
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| Indigo-dyed, tritik-stitched piece from West Africa. |
Many other fabrics are displayed, including itajime, clamp-resisted pieces, as well as shibori-stitched and Yamauchi-sensei's katazome pieces.
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Top section's round white designs are kumo shibori-
stitched. Bottom section is tritik. |
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| Itajime, clamp-resist, hangings |
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A table runner in arabesque design by Yamauchi Takeshi-sensei
is what I decide to purchase. |
After much deliberation, I decided to buy one of Yamauchi-sensei's katazone and indigo-dyed table runners on linen in an arabesque pattern.
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