This provides greater control in the use of color and allows the artist to create areas of subtle shading and depth rarely seen in other wax-resist textile arts.
Because of this method, the artists featured in Rozome Masters of Japan are considered the painters of the fiber world. The Textile Museum objects in Rozome Masters of Japan were created using other traditional Japanese resist-dyeing techniques – katazome, shibori and yuzen-zome – that eclipsed rozome after the Nara period.
Also included is a kimono made prior to World War II that illustrates the return to wax-resist dyeing after it was revived by Japanese artists at the turn of the 20th century. These textiles were produced in workshops that involved many artists working on each object.
Rozome, in contrast, has been adapted and perfected by artists who prefer to create art outside of the workshop tradition, producing unique, expressive works that bring Japanese dyeing into the contemporary art world.
Rozome Masters of Japan is organized by Betsy Sterling Benjamin and Ann Wessmann in collaboration with Massachusetts College of Art.
The exhibition is curated by Betsy Sterling Benjamin, a preeminent historian of Japanese textiles and author of The World of Rozome: Wax Resist Textiles of Japan, the definitive book in English on rozome art.
The exhibition is supported in part by grants from The Japan Foundation and Friends of Fiber Art International. The Textile Museum's presentation of Rozome Masters of Japan is supported in part by The Rau Foundation.
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