The 100-liter dye pot stove is finally complete. After the first firing, it removed sizing from fifteen 55 cm canvas pieces and boiled faster than the old gas setup.
After the typhoon, signs of Autumn spread through Iga’s sky, fields, garden and traditional-house workshop. Red spider lilies and changing farm scenery mark Hitotsuya’s new season.
Workshop renovation in Iga is turning a warehouse into a production space. The new floor, ceiling and walls now reveal the shape of the working workshop.
Iga changed how I notice the weather. After eight years here, I look at the sky each morning and let it shape whether I farm, weave, dye cloth, or work indoors.
A tokonoma in the detached annex of Hitotsuya’s old house in Iga is becoming a dyeing workshop, with a sink, plumbing, and other equipment for daily work.