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Chiaki Maki
The art of the weaver
25 January - 28 February, 2025
25 January - 28 February, 2025
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Yuragi 7
| |Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate
|102 x 132cm
|CODE: CHIA / 1
Tsunagi 1
| |Jointing, Mulberry silk, Basho (banana fibre), hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Harsingar
|80 x 135cm
|CODE: CHIA / 2
Yuragi 3
| |Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate
|104 x 131cm
|CODE: CHIA / 3
Tsunagi 2
| |Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|114 x 55cm
|CODE: CHIA / 4
Yuragi 2
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, log wood and charcoal
|75 x 108cm
|CODE: CHIA / 5
Koshi 8
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|100 x 200cm
|CODE: CHIA / 6
Koshi 4
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo, Pomegranate and Sappun wood
|102 x 115cm
|CODE: CHIA / 7
Field 1
| |Hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Basho (Banana fibre), Choma (Ramie),Tassar silk and Kuzu, natural colour
|102 x 233cm
|CODE: CHIA / 8
Field 2
| |Hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Basho (Banana fibre), Choma (Ramie),Tassar silk and Kuzu, natural colour
|100 x 232cm
|CODE: CHIA / 9
Dancing Basho
| |Basho Paper, Basho (banana fibre), Bhimal
|140 x 140cm
|CODE: CHIA / 10
Koshi 3
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|105 x 190cm
|CODE: CHIA / 11
Tsunagi 5
| |Jointing, Linen,Tassar silk and Mulberry silk
|154 x 210cm
|CODE: CHIA / 12
Tsunagi 6
| |Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Muga silk, Basho, Indigo and Pomegranate
|40 x 165cm
|CODE: CHIA / 13
Yuragi 8
| |Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate
|103 x 130cm
|CODE: CHIA / 14
Yuragi 5
| |Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate
|103 x 130cm
|CODE: CHIA / 15
Yuragi 6
| |Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate
|104 x 130cm
|CODE: CHIA / 16
Koshi (grid) 1
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, fresh leaf Indigo, Pomegranate
|104 x 187cm
|CODE: CHIA / 17
Untitled 1
| |Akhiha weave (open denting), Choma, Mulberry silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|50 x 228cm
|CODE: CHIA / 18
Yuragi 4
| |Gold and Silver, double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Pomegranate
|104 x 125cm
|CODE: CHIA / 19
Koshi 6
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|103 x 108cm
|CODE: CHIA / 20
Koshi 5
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo, Pomegranate and Sappun wood
|102 x 115cm
|CODE: CHIA / 21
Tsunagi 4
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|105 x 153cm
|CODE: CHIA / 22
Tsunagi 3
| |Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Basho, Indigo and Pomegranate, Banyan bark
|37 x 86cm
|CODE: CHIA / 23
Yuragi 1
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|37 x 81cm
|CODE: CHIA / 24
Koshi 2
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|100 x 200cm
|CODE: CHIA / 25
Untitled 2
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|70 x 100cm
|CODE: CHIA / 26
Tsunagi 8
| |Jointing, Linen, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Tassar silk
|154 x 210cm
|CODE: CHIA / 27
Tsunagi 7
| |Jointing, hand-reeled Mulberry silk, Choma (Ramie), Indigo and Pomegranate
|41 x 171cm
|CODE: CHIA / 28
Landscape
| |Bhimal fibre, hand-spun Himalayan wool and Pomegranate
|220 x 70cm
|CODE: CHIA / 29
Koshi 7
| |Double weave, hand-reeled Mulberry silk and Muga silk, Indigo and Pomegranate
|194 x 103cm
|CODE: CHIA / 30
Untitled 3
| |Bhimal fibre, hand-spun Himalayan wool and Indigo
|66 x 86cm
|CODE: CHIA / 32
My textile making is not only for expression, but it's made by living products and playing with them in my favourite way. My dream was to plow the land and cultivate plants for the fibres and the colours and the food... and now I've been doing it for about 10 years.
Sometimes just receiving from wild nature also.
'Yuragi' means 'wave' in Japanese, 'Tsunagi' means 'jointing'.
I'm looking closely at nature every day. For example, silk worms shake their head when they make cocoons. So when we use only the hand to pull filaments out of each cocoon slowly, and gather them and let them dry without any equipment, silk yarns become as free as they want to be. There is 'Yuragi' - the wave - in the silk. Hand-reeled silk contains waves, air and texture.
Yuragi is made by the silk yarns we make in Ganga Maki every day. Pulling each filament from cocoons which are from local farmers in Uttarakhand. Dyed by the indigo we grow every year. Silver yarns are dyed by charcoal (a by-product of our natural dyes). Gold yarns are dyed by the pomegranate fruit's skin.