IMG: Four stencil onion bags

 

Workshop: Making a Japanese Onion Bag (Shifuku) with Emi Fujisawa

Beautiful Freak Fashion Lab will host a slow fashion workshop: Making a hand sown and hand dyed onion bag (shifuku) with Japanese textile artist Emi Fujisawa
The bag for tea bowl and other tools in the tea ceremony in Japan is called shifuku. The katazome is Japnese traditional printing using rice glue and dye.
The workshop will last for 3 hours starting from 13.30, including:-

  • Making and cutting your own print design;
  • Place the rice glue to your design on the vintage fabric;
  • Hand sweing the shifuku bag;
  • Hand dye the shifuku bag with an indigo vat;
  • 30 minutes tea break, enjoying Japanese sweets with matcha tea.

The dimensions of your handmade bag will be approx15cm x 15cm.

Cost:   £90