caroline wall

I found it difficult to contain my excitement when I read a recent post on the internet informing me about a wonderful man. In a summer month whilst I was studying for my BA Textile design degree at Derby University, I was lucky enough to stumble across Junichi Arai at the Otsuka Textile Design Institute in Tokyo. I then spent time in his home town in Kiryu, Japan learning and gaining an understanding of his methods and techniques. I even own some of the beautiful textiles that Junichi Arai kindly gave to me. I owe it to him for becoming far too fascinated in the burning of metallic fabrics and the amazing results that can be achieved by transfer printing! I had such a wonderful time that summer. I was totally amazed by the work of Junichi Arai and the way he combined ancient techniques such as Shibori with new fabrics and technologies.