Japanese Crafts
How a Square of Cloth Carries a Bottle
Two knots do most of the work. Which cloth size to buy, how to wrap a box, a bottle and a watermelon, and why the plastic bag fee revived the habit.
Japan Know How archive
Category: Japanese Crafts
Wrapping cloth, folded paper, gold-repaired pottery and stitched indigo: crafts explained by what they are for and how they are made, with the regions and workshops that still make them. Enough detail to try one, and enough honesty about which ones take years.
Japanese Crafts
The Law, the Mark, and the Price Difference
Japan certifies crafts by law: mostly handmade, a century-old technique, one named region. What the seal means, and why the real piece costs what it does.