Bbc Handmade In Japan Series 1 2of3 The Kimono ... [work] Official

The master weaver reveals that a single square inch of the kimono Shaw is trying to replicate contains 120 weft threads and 360 warp threads. At the current pace, the kimono will be ready for the client in 2027—eight years from the filming date.

"I am not saving the tradition," the designer admits. "I am mutating it. If it does not change, it will die." BBC Handmade in Japan Series 1 2of3 The Kimono ...

The episode opens not in a glamorous Tokyo atelier, but in the rural, windswept landscape of Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture. Here, the Tango silk tradition survives. The master weaver reveals that a single square