Last week with my weaving class and I went to a Textile factory. They make really really really big weavings and design interiors of cars..(among other things. thats all i saw though.)
Really cool to see large scale weavings being produced.





Also at the factory there was a museum of everything cool and interesting (...) that the company has made.
This was the coolest thing I saw. Before world war 2 dye was only produced in Germany so during the war dye could not be sent from Germany to Japan. After the war when shipments continued to be sent to Japan the colors were not the same. This weaving took about 2 months to do and the president of the textile company's wife was not satisfied with the color. side note: the weaving was already behind schedule with being finished. But one cold and rainy night the Wife went in and took matters into her own hands and cut the weaving... i repeat cut the already behind/two month old/not finished/a lot of hard work but into it weaving! What a jerk!



Pictures of Ichihara, the place where the factory was.





Classmate who fell asleep. Everyone thought this was really funny. someone should have drawn on his face!



Here are pictures from my Critique. The crit went well. I told my teacher what I wanted to say and she told me how to say it in Japanese. My classmates were really impressed. I almost peed my pants because I was so nervous and embarrassed. It sucked cause I didnt understand anything that was going on. I just sat there for 3 hours and played drop 7 on my phone. So it wasn't a complete waste of time!


This is my weaving. . not that exciting.


My friend taped this to the table... said it was bad lucky. I didn't understand why. I just thought it was funny.


Woman's legs. They looked so funny and plump. Good thing I brought my iphone with me that day. There is no way to turn off the sound of japanese cell phones (pretty sure almost all of them..) so that creepy men (or women) cant take pictures of girls.. ( or plump stub legs)