Crafts

To celebrate the opening of its new cultural center, the city of Kiryu textiles in the prefecture of Gunma looked for the world's most famous and textile fibres artists, Sheila Hicks, creating a curtain of the theatre flat, a doncho. Hicks used the various skills of kimono-weaving town in a collaborative effort, including contemporary ideas of Kiryu Junichi Arai, a textile planner "of international renown. The doncho includes a layer of background reminiscent vertical hanging obi sashes, which is placed on a random composition of pressure, abstract forms.

These are woven shimmering, light-catching glass fiber and polyester filament and with a tone of high technology, pressure-vacuum-deposit dye technique. This doncho has set a standard in many respects, not only because this is the first doncho made outside the traditional workshops Kyoto, but also because the city uses the talents of an international artist to create the design and coordinate production in the context of the textile industry of Kiryu.