6th International Shibori Symposium, Tokyo, May 2005

The 6th International Shibori Symposium will be held at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, on May 14-17, 2005. Mascha Mioni's Shibori artpiece "The Gordian Knot" will be shown at Tama Art University, Tokyo. Her Art to Wear creation "The Gordian Dress" will be on display in Gallery Concept 21, Tokyo.

Shibori is the collective term in Japanese for tie-dye, stitch-dye, fold-dye, pole wrap-dye, etc. It is translated into English as shaped-resist dyeing, because no comparable embracing term exists in English. World Shibori Network (WSN) is a grassroots organization formed in 1992 in Japan at the time of the first International Shibori Symposium. Our main goal is to create a network of artisans, designers, business people, schools, exhibitions to work together to support traditional cottage industires of tie&dye, which have roots in many parts of the world.
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The Gordian Dress, Foto: Asy Asendorf

The following textile artists from around the world will participate at the exhibition FUSION : Shibori Wearable Art at gallery Concept 21, from May 12 to May 18, 2005:

Patricia Black、Joan McGee、Marian Clayden、Mascha Mioni、Angelina DeAntonis、Aisling McLaughlin、Genevieve Dion、Hiroaki Ohya、Ray Harris、Jeung-Hwa Park、Ana Lisa Hedstrom、Barbara Rogers、Yoshiki Hishinuma、SIX、Yoko Ito、Carter Smith、Mie Iwatsubo、Futoshi Tanaka、Mary Jaeger、Yvonne Wakabayashi、Elisa Ligon