About the artwork
"Skin" is a garment made with the technique of knitting a net. Net-knitting is a technique integral to human life since ancient times and is made from a single thread with a series of knots. This simple technique of tying, which is made by human hands without using tools, forms the very origins of the history of textiles. This work makes use of a knot tied in a spiral from a single thread. Due to the elasticity of the net it covers the body like a delicate skin. By arranging the knots of a general net, the space created by the threads was changed from a rhombus to a scale — a shape devised to cover the body beautifully. Made from Tasser silk, the color and texture of the material itself is used as is, without daring to refine it. Each hand-knitted garment is one-of-a-kind, and since it is formed from threads, no material goes to waste. This net garment has a structure that will not fray. Even if it is torn and can be mended and repaired.
This exhibition is part of TSUBOMI COLLECTION run by Tokyo Zokei University
Tsubomi Collection introduces innovative products designed by students and new graduates of the Tokyo Zokei University. The brand name tsubomi means budding blossom in Japanese, which celebrates the budding talent of our newly minted artists and designers.
About the exhibitor
Shiori Ono was born in 1995 in Tokyo. She completed the doctoral program at Tokyo Zokei University Graduate School in 2022. She works as both an artist and designer and her work creates clothes from a single thread with the themes of "skin" and "lightness". She creates works that combine the "material" of thread with the "technique" of weaving cloth.
Shiori Ono
