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SAKURI CLOCK

  • Original Brand

  • Release Date

    2021

  • Designer

    Yutaro Kumagai

  • Photo

    Takaya Sakamoto / Chiya Sakamoto / Yutaro Kumagai

FROM AOMORI PROJECT

In 2014 we designed, developed, promoted and supervised the design of a new wall clock for「SAKURI+」. 「SAKURI+」 is a brand for expanding the possibilities of Tsugaru SAKIORI and enjoying sustainable living, based on Tsugaru SAKIORI, a traditional craft of Aomori Prefecture, and in collaboration with materials and traditional crafts of Aomori Prefecture.
[Textile Studio Murakami]
Cloth is dyed using dyeing techniques such as indigo dyeing, apple dyeing and herb dyeing, the cloth is then ripped to make weft. Sakiori can be produced with various textures depending on the width of the ripped weft and the force of the weaving process.
In addition, the combination of warp and weft yarns produces an infinite number of Sakiori textiles.

[Odagiri Nishikishi Laboratory]
Nishikishi is a natural stone collected around the Tsugaru Peninsula and when polished, it becomes glossy and beautiful colors and patterns appear. It has been loved by people for its beauty since ancient times, and in the Jomon period it was processed into 'katadama', in the Muromachi period it was prized as 'shari-ishi' and exported as far away as Tang China and India, and in the Edo period it was called Tsugaru-tama and prized as ornaments such as kanzashi (ornamental hairpins). Today, it is known as a beautiful stone for appreciation, as well as an ornament such as rings and necklaces, and this project was an attempt to sublimate it into a product.
 

[Wanimokko Enterprise Association]
This woodworking workshop is in the nature-rich woodland of Owani-machi, Aomori Prefecture, not far from the World Natural Heritage Site the Shirakami Mountains
They produced and incorporated the base part of the SAKIORI by inlaying apple wood on solid beech wood.
 

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