13/04/2026
Yesterday I took my new otters on a journey around Tokyo. We visited my favourite haberdasher, Okadaya (Shinjuku station exit West, just past the giant screen with the cat!) they have everything you could need for your sewing and I never leave without buying something (and I've already been 4 times this trip!!) from there we jumped on the Marunouchi Line to Akasaka-Mitsuke to visit the Kioi Art Gallery, Tokyo's stencil museum. There are some truly amazing old stencils on display and we watched a great film about the techniques and purchased one or two nice small stencils... from there we jumped back on the Tokyo Metro to Omote Sando. This is Tokyo's designer district but, if you keep on walking down the hill to Harajuku and cross the big intersection, you come to Chicago, a cool vintage shop. The Japanese love old vintage American clothing but... there's also a whole room of vintage silk kimono, Haori jackets and Obi. Let's just say that a number of them will be winging their way across the globe to the UK, USA, Switzerland, Denmark and South Africa!! Today we met Bryan and have travelled to and settled in at the farmhouse. Shibori stitching and Katazome paste production is already well underway...!!
