About the School 7

An eight-part series introducing the school in the present as we review the 47 years since its foundation.

Who are the students, and why do they come to the school?

Tomomi Mizuno, who studied fashion and was involved in creating theatrical costumes before coming to Kawashima Textile School.

In the Professional course, there are students who have just graduated high school or university, who want to make a career change, who are preparing to take over their family business, or who have decided to join after taking one of our workshops. People come from all over Japan, and there are people from other countries who learn Japanese to study at Kawashima Textile School.

Students with various backgrounds that connect through fabric gather at the school, such as Fashion, Architecture, Painting, and Textile Science and so on. This could be an indication of how profound the world of weaving is, and how it spreads in different directions. There is an increasing number of people who, when reconsidering their paths at a turning point in their lives, wish to learn handweaving as lifework, and as something that connects them to the basics of life.

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