If you have just one day in Tokyo
If you have just one day in Tokyo

Jarrod & I went to Japan in May, 2025 for the third time. There were a lot of textile gems to share from that trip, but this post is about what you should do if you have just one day in Tokyo.

First of all, I recommend staying at Onyado Nono Hot Spring, a centrally located hotel in Asakusa. We stayed in this neighborhood before and it was very walkable and accessible to underground transportation. An extra bonus is that this hotel has a hot spring bathhouse on the bottom floor. The hot spring was crowded the evening I went there, but the steam room was…

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Repost: Making Japanese Sukumo Indigo Vats for North House, Unplugged 2025
Repost: Making Japanese Sukumo Indigo Vats for North House, Unplugged 2025

I was lucky to be involved in bringing Kenta Watanabe, Japanese sukumo indigo dyer and farmer to teach at North House Folk School’s annual Unplugged event in 2025. They kindly asked me to share my experience preparing for the courses in the following article which was originally posted on October 28, 2025 on the North House Folk School Blog. …

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textiles, indigoJazmin Hicks-Dahlsukumo, indigo, indigo dyeing, japanese indigo, kenta watanabeComment
Groupie Makes Scottish Wedding Blanket--My trip to Vermont's Marshfield School of Weaving
Groupie Makes Scottish Wedding Blanket--My trip to Vermont's Marshfield School of Weaving

I arrived Monday morning at the weaving school’s barn classroom ready for 5 intense days of learning. The other very friendly students and I began chatting. This was a Foundations Class, so naturally none of them had ever woven before. “You don’t know who Justin is!?” I said in disbelief.

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Diving into Ikat Kasuri
Diving into Ikat Kasuri

Here are some details about my latest weaving project, Ikat Dishtowel II and a little about myself too.

WHAT IS IKAT?

Ikat is fabric that has been patterned through the process of resist tying and dyeing threads before weaving them. The result is subtly blurred patterns that show vertically in the warp, horizontally in the weft, or both. The whole thing is a highly planned and calculated affair. In Japan ikat is known as kasuri.

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