Asa Parsons Swedish Embassy, Tokyo, and Yoshiko Wada, host in Hilldale studios

Asa Parsons describing the landscape where her weaving studio is located 400 miles north  of Stockholm in a former chapel.  She also works in another studio, for her industrial designs 50 miles from Stockholm. She has visited with the weavers in Cambodia, where she worked with Carol Cassidy, and Laos, as well as having done extensive travels in India.    She was hosted by Hiroshiko Wada the president of the International Shibori Network at her home in the NW Berkeley(Kensington) hills about 10 minutes by auto from where I live.  I however walked the canyon to her place, which took about an hour.  I very much enjoyed meeting Asa and experiencing her passion and skill for weaving, which to me, has always been a magical enterprise.    Asa was very interested in my own research on weavers and song and music, related to poetry, in the wider Orient, as well as in India and on Bali, and so on. 

White cotton (relief) and Yellow Ramie 


This weaving of cotton and ramie was exhibited in the current Swedish Embassy show in Tokyo, 2014.   

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