Shibori is a test of faith - one invests hours of stitching, blind as it were, before the ‘thought’ is revealed at the end of the process. I enjoy cloth, for with shibori one is so utterly and completely involved in the activity of managing and organizing it. I also enjoy sewing, for there is a challenge in that seemingly endless and prohibitive sea of fabric to conquer. I find completeness in symmetry – no matter how intricate, how complex – it conveys an order, a calm, which greatly appeals.
Recorded at the Maiwa School of Textiles Lecture series 2007.