The Gallery of Contemporary Textile Artists
Chiyoko Tanaka
Japan
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Mud Dyed Cloth — Mud Dots on Red StripesSize: 34 x 93 cm
Materials: hand-woven, mud-dyed ramie, raw linen
Date: 2009 -
Printed and Grinded Fabric — Red Stripes on White StripesSize: Left: 28 x 29 cmRight: 29 x 28 cm
Material: silk screen printed raw linen, rubbed with white stone
Date: 1985 -
Grinded Fabric — OcherSize: Left: 507 x 100 cmRight: 525 x 100 cm
Materials: Left: Jurakudai soil on warp of ramieRight: hand-woven ramie, raw linen, rubbed with Jurakudai soil
Date: 1984 -
Grinded Fabric — Three Squares (Blue Threads and Sienna)Size: 31.5 x 97 cm
Material: hand-woven ramie, raw linen, rubbed with brick, and pencil drawing
Date: 1997 -
Permeated Black — Black StainSize: 43.5 x 38 cm
Material: hand-woven silk, cotton, rubbed with stone on the reverse side, and black stain
Date: 1999-2001 -
Kasa — Sange (Lotus Petals)Size: 109.5 x 140.5 cm
Material: hand-sewn, hand-stitched used cloth (silk, ramie, cotton), Chinese ink (sumi) - dyed and mud-dyed
Date: 1997
Chiyoko Tanaka
Time is the central element in her work. Woven fabrics that have been deliberately worn away as an actual and metaphorical representation of time, yarns and cloth that have been slowly permeated with dye and mud, used clothes brought together in the slow, ritual act of Kesa making.
Artist's Statement
