Handmade in Japan Episode 2 of 3 The Kimono

  • 5 years ago
The second episode takes us to the remarkable island of Amami Oshima in the southern oceans of Japan, to follow the elaborate handmade production of a traditional Japanese kimono. Over five hundred people are involved in producing the island's famous mud-dyed silk which takes many months to produce. The film follows the painstaking process of the silk being bound, hand dyed, woven and finally turned into a kimono by a seamstress. Along the way we not only discover the history of the kimono tradition, but also the many difficulties facing the kimono industry in modern Japan.
Check out other episodes:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7nvc1k - Episode 1
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7nvcwu - Episode 3