An Irresistible, Uncontrollable Allure

Was craftsmanship always a part of your daily life growing up?

My family runs a dyeing factory in Kyoto. It started as my great-grandfather's Yuzen textile dyeing factory and is now managed by my father, who mainly prints on clothing using auto screen printers and inkjet printers. It was also my grandparents’ home, so I was always around fabrics as industrial products from a young age. The dyes for prints are blended and mixed with a computer-controlled automatic mixer, but final adjustments are always made by hand to suit the climate and humidity. Seeing these dyeing processes up close, I learned that even machine-produced fabrics are always completed by the hands of skilled artisans.