Kawashima Selkon Textiles will participate in Milan Design Week, the world's largest design festival, from June 7-12th, 2022. The exhibition "WOVEN NARRATIVES - Kyoto, the Landscape of Four Symbols" will be held at the library of Circolo Filologico Milanese, the oldest cultural association in Milan.

This will be Kawashima Selkon Textiles’ second exhibition at Milan Design Week following its 2019 debut, and the installation will be art-directed by the internationally acclaimed creative unit, AtMa inc.

The story of the “Four Symbols”, the divine guardians who are said to have protected Kyoto since ancient times, and the “scenery of Kyoto”, a landscape with a 1000-year legacy, and are expressed through the display of the textile objects. The textiles are made using traditional hand-weaving techniques passed down through generations since the company’s establishment, and the objects are woven using “multilayered iridescent film”, which changes color and expression depending on the time of day and angle of view.

The dynamic spatial composition and different expressions of the textiles, exhibited in a library, a space interwoven with stories, tell the story of Kyoto (the birthplace of Kawashima Selkon Textiles), and hint at the possibilities that lie in the intersections of legacy and innovation.

Traditional hand weaving by craftsmen and machine weaving that challenges new ideas.
Using these two technologies, we will create a space that expresses a landscape with textiles, based on the motif of "Kyoto, where the four gods govern", which is associated with Kawashima Selkon.
The objects, which are a diverse expression of culture and traditions inherited from the past crossed with new techniques, show countless colors and expressions in the light, wind, and air.
In this age of digital information and images, we hope that the overwhelming presence of material created by high-precision weaving will inspire ideas and inspiration for future landscapes.