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A graceful, ruffled bracelet. Earrings like leaves that nestle close to the ears. The basis of her creations is a traditional handcraft, straw work.

These Monster Aliens, made solely of colorful and pop pipe cleaners, are the main monsters that comprise Takuma Fujisaki’s “Mogol World.”

“Boozhoo!”

Madison Holler, the founding artist of Rubinski Works based in Minnesota, greeted me with this word as we began conversing via email.

Takezasa-do, a woodblock printing studio-cum-store, established as Takenaka Mokuhan in the Meiji period, occupies a machiya, a traditional wooden townhouse, located in a narrow alleyway of Kyoto.

Laboratorio quattro is known for their patchwork bojagi (or pojagi).

Himmeli are traditional Finnish ornaments made from rye straw.

There are piles of fabric and yarn on one side of the room, and on the other, hefty vintage books on flora and fauna; treasure troves of inspiration.

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."

The desire to create useful objects has long been a source of inspiration.

Look, eat, feel.

Okinawa has a variety of textile traditions, but Bingata is the only dyeing technique.

The history of Bashofu is old, it is believed to date back to as early as the 13th or 14th centuries.