HM: on a visit to Takasaki, Japan – the Takasaki City Dye Plant Botanical Garden, a special exhibition of works by Hama Dyeing Studio: struck by the interplay of printed patterns on woven structure/substrate… (details of works by Kanji and Satoshi Hama)

Also just marveling anew at the craft and labor required to make something like a kimono by hand, with natural materials and manual processes…