Kimono: Garment, Canvas and Artistic Muse

Name: Kimono: Garment, Canvas and Artistic Muse
Start: 2025-03-01T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-06-01T23:59:59-06:00
Location: Woodson Art Museum

March 1 - June 1

This exhibition celebrates one of the world’s most admired garment, the Japanese kimono, an instantly recognizable robe with a tall “T” form. The word kimono, meaning “a thing that is worn,” refers to many different types of robes, from ornate silk wedding uchikake to simpler cotton summer yukata. Worn in Japan by both women and men for well over a thousand years, the kimono has often been a canvas for spectacular woven, dyed, painted, printed, and embroidered designs created by textile artists.

Image: Michael F. Rohde, Fall/Nara, 2001; hand-dyed wool on linen warp.

Details

Start:: March 1
End:: June 1
Event Categories:: Global Textile Event, Global Textile Events
Website:: https://www.lywam.org/exhibition/kimono/

Venue

: Woodson Art Museum
: Wausau, Wisconsin + Google Map

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