Fabric Craft
Home Visit & Culture Experience Program
Option
Why not enjoy making small items (boxes, balls, dolls, etc) by using silk cloth. The silk cloth used to be a Japanese kimono which your tutor has kept for customers. You can make what you would find in a souvenir shop and take your work back home!
Japanese people have been very conscious of ecology since several hundred years ago. Children’s toys were good examples made from old cloth. In this program you can make small items (balls, boxes, dolls, animals) by using several pieces of colorful old Japanese silk cloth, which used to be part of Kimono (traditional clothes). Another important point to note is that we always use silk instead of synthetic fiber cloth as silk is very flexible & strong as well as thin & beautiful.
Time
2-2.5 hours (including round-trip taxi transfers)
Price
16,000 yen per person (based on 1 participant)
11,500 yen per person (based on 2 participants or more)
1. Extra charge will be required for the program outside business hours (Our business hours: 09:30-18:30)
2. Programs will be shortened if customers are late for the meeting time due to personal reasons.
3. We may have to use public transportation, depending on the location of your hotel.
4. Maximum: approximately 9 people (Customers may be divided into several groups depending on the number)
5. No discount for children.
6. Other foreign language speaking staff than English can be arranged at an extra charge.
7. Observers will be charged a full price as well.
- Emiko Ashida
- She has been teaching English at her home. She enjoys meeting with foreign tourists and introducing Japanese culture to them.. She is very good at helping people put on kimono beautifully, and helping them have a very good memory of Japan and Kyoto.
- Your attendant picks you up to your hotel lobby.
- You move to your instructor's house with the attendant by a chartered taxi.
The attendant introduces many things, basic information about Kyoto and Japan.
- Arrive at the house, and start the experience.
As you arrive at the house, your instructor meet you. She/He introduces about her/himself firstly, your introduction, and then start a basic lecture about a history of Japanese fabric crafts. - Let's try to make your own work with your teacher's kind advice/support. Let us know what you would like to make before the program.
- Your taxi comes to the house. You leave your instructor's house and go back to your hotel with the attendant.
Culture Experience Short Program
For those who do not have enough time for home-visit course, WAK JAPAN offers Short experience programs. The courses are run of workshop basis and many people (maximum about 10 people) can share a program at the same time.