Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada in National Palace Museum, Taiwan!

February 12
Ms. Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada was lecturing in the National Palace Museum.

After the lecture, some of the audience took a picture with Ms. Wada in front of the National Palace Museum....

Prof. Lee was introducing Ms. Wada to the audience

Research fellow Tsai welcomed Ms. Wada

The condition of lecture in National Palace Museum

*Introduction of Lecture:

Overview of World Indigo Dyed Textiles

by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

Following the use of mineral based pigments as colorants for body, cave walls and fiber, indigo was one of the earliest dyes to color textiles. Ms Wada will look at indigo textiles and the color blue in its social context including class, religion, decorative processes, and fashion. Indigo plants are one of the most prevalent sources of dye in the world. There are over 10 plant species that contain significant amounts of indigo, adapting to a wide variety of climate and soils, thus making the dye widely available.
Early inhabitants and later, lower class people wore and used plain or natural color textiles because it took more sophisticated knowledge, time and effort to color them. Tannin based colorants and a wide range of yellow were more numerous and easily obtained from nature, but the color green was achieved only by over-dying yellow with blue. In many cases, purple was achieved by over-dying red with blue. Indigo yields a wide range of shades of blue, from pale azure to black blue-all beautiful in their own hue.
Indigo dye is a mechanical bonding dye which interacts with any natural fiber and forms a kind of coating over fiber which makes the textile stronger though weak against friction. Such is the attraction for denim Jeans.

Yoshiko I. Wada

Ms. Wada helped to examine some old textiles from Japan...

identification in NPM-1

Textile identification in NPM-2

Textile identification in NPM-3

Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan!

February 11

Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Mr. Hercules Morphopoulos(Husband of Ms.Wada), director Prof. Wen-Ying Huang of Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, Prof. Jui-Tsung Lee, Ms.Ling-Hsiang Chen visited Yangmingshan National Park.

Ms. Wada was talking about shibori...

Datun indigo stone tanks

Jiengshan indigo exhibition

Jiengshan indigo fresh leaf dyeing

They stay that night in Taipei.

Sozan Indigo Dyeing Shibori Exhibition in Jiengshan Nature Center!

SOZAN INDIGO DYEING SHIBORI EXHIBITION

Time: 2009/02/10-02/15

09:00-16:00(everyday)

Location:

Jiengshan Nature Center, Yangmingshan National Park

2F., No.89, Lane 101, Jingshan Rd., Shihlin District, Taipei City 111, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Organizer : Yangmingshan National Park
Sponsor：Taiwan Indigo Dyeing Society

After the exhibition of France and Canada in 2007 and 2008, we are trying to host a exhibition in Japan( which is the SHIBORI invention place in the world).

So, now we are communicating with Shibori Community, and maybe will achieve in two or three years later.

New season for Sozan Indigo Art in Neihu!

New year! New season!

After the chinese new year, the big event is "Working"!

So, everyone came back to dye and create the new thing at 2/7 (Sat.)....

except "Peng"... So we will punish him a little~

Mm...maybe treat everyone!

Ha...just kidding and bringing some snack!

The Lecture of Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada in the National Palace Museum

Lecturer：Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Lecture : "Overview of World Indigo Dyed Textile"

Time：2009/2/12（Thu.）10：00--12：00

location：National Palace Museum


Introduction of Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

• Artist, Scholar, Curator
• Historical and Contemporary Textiles and Fiber Art:Japanese, Indian, and other ethnic resist dyeing traditions
• PRESENT POSITIONS as of 2008:

1. President, World Shibori Network-World. Berkeley, CA and Nagoya, Japan.
2. Advisor, Gunma Prefecture Society for Sericulture Industry Promotion (GPSSIP). Gunma, Japan.
3. Visitng Faculty, Okinawa Prefecture University of Fine Arts, Naha, Japan.

• WORK IN PROGRESS (titles tentative)

1. Book Ragged Beauty: Repair and Reuse, Past and Present.
2. Book Material Magic: Theory and Practice of Textile Art and Design Series (Protein, Cellulose, Synthetic).
3. Book Meisen Textile Production and Women Consumers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Japan.

• Exhibition--- “Ragged Beauty: Repaired Textiles and Other Objects”

she also have teaching courses and workshops, and sometimes have the lectures.

• PUBLICATIONS

*Books

1. Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now, Kodansha International, Tokyo, Japan. 2002, 03, 04, 05, 06.
2. The Kimono Inspiration: Art and Art to Wear in America, co-edited with Rebecca tevens and co-authored with Nancy Corwin, Julie Schafler Dale to accompany exhibition co-curated the exhibition of same title, Pommogranate Artbooks, Rohnert Park, and The Textile Museum, Washington DC. 1996.
3. Shibori II: Himetaru Hana ("Blossoms Unveiled"), Unsodo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan. 1990. Preface in Japanese and English.
4. Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing, co-authored with Mary Rice and Jane Barton, Kodansha International, 1983, 86, 88, 89, 1991, 94, 96, 99 (soft cover), 2000, 02, 03, 05 Japan.
5. "Craft to Art: Contemporary Work in Indigo" and "Indigo in Japan," Indigo/Leven in een kleur, Indigo Foundation, Amsterdam, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, Weesp, Holland. 1985. (Two papers contributed to this anthology).
6. Ikat: An Introduction, co-authored with Diane Ritch, Kasuri Dyeworks, 1973. Rev. 1975. U.S.A. Reprinted 1982, Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education, Brisbane, Australia.
7. “History of Japanese Shibori,” and “The Development of Comtemporary Shibori,” catalogue for the Third International Shibori Symposium, Santiago, Chile. 1999.
   

*Articles for Periodicals:

1. STUDY OF TEXTILE COLLECTIONS
   
2. STUDY TOUR PROGRAM
3. FASHION PRODUCT DESIGN AND DISTRIBUTION
4. ARTISTS AND ARTISANS REPRESENTATIVE IN USA
5. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS