A knitting laboratory like no other: here are ideas and tips common to all aspects of manufacturing! Kiya Yokoyama - Japanese Craft Book

Release date: ‎2021/9/17
Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese
Book: ‎ 159 pages

A collection of interviews between the up-and-coming knitting artist Yokoyama Kiya, who is a pioneer in the handicraft industry and is active in workshops and lectures, and knitting experts, from popular artists to pastors and historians.

This book will completely change the way you look at and enjoy knitting!

The guests are as follows:

●Kitagawa Kei (lace knitting instructor/researcher in the history of modern Japanese Western arts)

A researcher who continues to investigate the history of knitting since the Meiji period.

Behind the abundant materials, which are hard to believe are privately owned, you will also find the answer to the question, "Why are there 'right' and 'wrong' answers in Japanese knitting?"

●Watanabe Shinya (office worker/pastor/knitter)

A knitter who has two faces: pastor and office worker.

His unique method of sketching landscapes and deriving colors and images from them to knitting will delve into the depths of "manufacturing."

●Soumanoriko (Yarn Artist)
A yarn artist who holds various workshops related to yarn, including spinning.
She practices the idea that "people" come first, and that "manufacturing" is supported by them.
What is on the other side of "a place where handicrafts are communicated"?

●Mitsue (Amigurumi Artist/Knitting Sculptor)
An amigurumi artist who has created various works that are popular in the United States, including "Orang-kun," an orangutan so realistic that it is said to be "alive."
The secret of how works like "Orang-kun" are created will be revealed.

●Nishimura Tomoko (Knitting Artist/Translator)
A popular knitting artist and translator, she is also a leading expert on introducing English recipes.
As the conversation unfolds about the knitting situation overseas, the talk ends with an introduction to a foreign book called "Knitting without tears," which is about "ways of thinking that are kind to knitters."

Yokoyama Kiya himself will also be joined by knit designer Oami Yumi, and they will talk about various topics related to knitting.

The flexibility of "manufacturing" that each person conveys will loosen up rigid ways of thinking and lead you to the feeling that "this is fine" rather than "it should be like this".
There are also four other spicy knit columns and six recipes related to the contents of each conversation.
A book for everyone who loves knitting.
Full color, 160 pages in total.

■Table of Contents
● History does not teach us "correct answers"
● What is necessary for "manufacturing" is discovering in life
● Thread connects people and loosens your heart
● Leave "space" in the work for the viewer to enter into
● Knitting without tears. "What you have gained" and "what you have lost" through knitting diagrams and patterns
● Knitting does not need words. But it's good to have a knitter to talk

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