a few months ago i started taking a pottery class, which i love. the teacher is great, and she has a tiny studio/shop/classroom which happen...

i finally wrote about the great cooking lesson i had last month at uzuki over on felt cafe japan . you can read the full version and see mo...

as i am packing up my belongings, winter is definitely over. the plum trees have been blooming for a few weeks now, and then the peach trees...

last month i went to another natural wool class at my favorite wool store in kyoto. we dyed wool with gobaishi, a japanese gall that is crea...

last month i did a weaving workshop in kyoto with my mom and my crafty friend rebecca. the nishijin area of kyoto is the textile district, a...

this is the view of ohara kobo , a plant dye workshop in ohara , which is a small town an hour north of kyoto . i was really excited to try...

this is the japanese indigo plant, or polygonum. in japanese, it's called tadeai. ai is indigo as in 'aizome' means indigo dyein...

on saturday, i went to pick up my pottery from the class i took earlier this year. the teacher had fired and glazed everything, and it was t...

the people who organize the handmade market at chion-ji temple that i've blogged about before, also are involved with another handmade m...

yesterday was my first class at the itami craft center, part of the museum of arts and crafts in itami, hyogo prefecture, japan. it's a...