ちょうど、本格的にリネンで服を作り始めて６年になります。
近頃は、藍染めのことで頭が一杯の月日を過ごしてきました。デザインというと、定番に加え、少し新しいものを作るという事が続いてきました。ですが、この冬はじっくりペナンで作業することができ（これまで、冬が来るとあちこちフラフラ旅していたので）、新しいデザインの服を作りたい気持ちがどんどん戻ってきています。もう沢山スケッチしました！
「tamami watanabe 春夏秋冬の服」は、ヨーロッパ産の質の高いリネンやオーガニックコットンなどから仕立てたものを、日本のアトリエで草木染めした服たちです。
We have been watching as a family several (five to date) films by the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu from DVDs, a 9-disc set of which I brought with me from Japan.
The films provide a good opportunity for my son to both listen to Japanese spoken by others than I, and give him a look too at post-war Japan, daily family life then, and typical scenes from traditional Japanese homes and offices.
Ozu’s camera work is quiet and steady, especially compared with the often frenetic movement that characterizes more recent film and animation. In time, though, one gets used to this different pace made for a different time.
We are also working our way through a nine-DVD set of Italian films shot around the same time, by directors De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, about which more in a future post.
