Natural dye
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at The Victoria & Albert Museum
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk During my wanders around the Kimono Exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum in London, I was particularly fascinated by the pieces that are hand-dyed with natural dyes using shibori techniques. A particular red kimono caught my attention, when reading about it I discovered a link between the hemp leaf which resembles the motif in the popular traditional shibori pattern called Asanoha. “Asa” means hemp and “ha” means leaf. Image credit © Victoria and Albert museum Read more…