Yasuko Kido has been dealing in Japanese art for more than twenty years. Formerly a specialist of Japanese prints at Sotheby’s London, now she concentrates on Japanese textiles and works of art including Buddhist objects and Mingei works. Yasuko is particularly interested in folk textiles including patched indigo ragged futon covers called Boro, rare costumes and clothing made with natural fibres, as well as lavishly woven priest robes with gold threads (kinran). Yasuko was first enlightened by the beauty of these folk textiles when she assisted a Japanese dealer at the Hali textile fair in 2003. Since then she has endeavoured to promote Japanese traditional techniques of textile making including sashiko, shibori and kasuri that have been long forgotten and replaced with modern technology.
Exhibitions:
2006 - Kumbi Saleh Art Tribal, Barcelona, Spain.
’BORO, Tejidos Tradicionales de Japon’
2009 - Marilyn Garrow Fine Textile Art, London.
‘From Farmers to Priests’
Fairs:
The Textile Society’s London Antique Textile Fair, Kensington Town Hall.
The London Antique Textiles, Vintage Costumes & Tribal Art Fair, Olympia Hilton Hotel