WEAVING - The Long Soak
The Long Soak
Karen Sato learned to weave in Sweden and now builds her cloth in Tokyo, holding two textile worlds in one pair of hands. Her KOEL Story runs from the moment upphämta stopped her cold to the eleven-year-old towel that taught her how a thing can gain meaning as it wears, by way of Swedish linen, Japanese hemp, and a working idea of lagom. It is a feature about slow making, split roots, and the beauty a good long soak can bring.
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“I still remember the first time I saw upphämta. Something in me shifted.” - Karen Sato
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