Fumika Tani
TSUGI is an ongoing textile series that examines how traditional weaving can continue across shifting cultural and material contexts.
Rooted in the Japanese Kasuri tradition, the collection reinterprets ceremonial and everyday cloth through British wool and natural dyes derived from food waste. By transforming materials such as red wine, avocado stones, coffee grounds, and plant dyes into colour, the work foregrounds the overlooked afterlife of domestic remnants.
Each textile is woven at kimono width, honouring the structural discipline of Kasuri while recontextualising it within contemporary Britain. Grids and checks emerge as shared visual languages between Japanese and British textile histories, suggesting parallels between ritual cloth and working fabrics.
TSUGI proposes that tradition survives not through preservation alone, but through adaptation. Across the collection, weaving becomes a method of connecting place, material, and memory through evolving structures.
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