Ryoko Murai

Style

An artist making cloth from kudzu (arrowroot) fiber by extracting fiber from wild arrowroot vines, making thread, and weaving the threads into cloth. The warp and weft threads are woven in various ways using kasuri (splashed pattern) techniques and are combined to make unique three-dimensional and translucent textiles.

Biography

• 1994
  Started Oigawa Kudzu-fu
• 2021
  Selected for the 52nd Tōkai Traditional Kōgei Exhibition, Textiles Division
  Selected for the 55th Textiles Traditional Kōgei Exhibition

Official Site / Social Media etc.

• Official Site
• Facebook