Can molokhia fiber be turned into yarn? We are testing harvest timing, retting, fiber quality, and suitability for hand spinning while growing the plants ourselves.
A rose-like pale cream flower has opened on precious extra-long-staple cotton preserved in Japan and grown in Iga. We record the journey from seed to “Hitotsuya cotton.”
Hitotsuya explores how wild ramie, often treated as a weed, can be harvested, soaked, dried, and spun into yarn for future cloth.