To make kimono, or at least the fabric for it. Big surprise -_-'. Being a textile artist/designer its hard not to wonder about it though. I have been in love with kimono and most especially the textile side of it since...well forever... as in elementary school forever. I am slowly moving toward it, but alas the cost of supplies..the education needed ( most of which I will have to learn myself) is rather daunting. Maybe that is cop out and I am just a chicken. I also feel a bit odd about trying to break into the industry ( if..in million years that happens..which I am not counting on) because I can't say that I have formal training and that will either seem like a joke..or just plain rude or dissrespectful to the masters who have spent their WHOLE LIVES studying it. Who knows....it makes my mind whirl.
My interest falls in roketsu-zome textiles which is almost exactly the same thing as batik or wax resist dyeing. Roketsu-zome came about from the textile trade between Indonesia and Japan, at one time batiked fabrics for kimon were really popular. I am an avid batik-er and hope that it will one day be the mainstay of my textile art. I can't say that I want to be a famous kimono designer, because the chances of that are very slim if 0 but it has turned into a secret conquest for me. There are a few "gaijin" that have made it into the kimono world and have done well so that gives me less than an ounce of hope..but hope all the same. When I get down on my motives I like to look up new kimono designers and it flares my confidence a bit..just to know that someone out there is trying to renew kimono in the world.
My most recent find ( as was posted on immortalgeisha.com) is Saito Jotaro
http://www.jotaro.net/
to end...Ganbatte...Ganbatte ( do your best)
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