Designer Sumiko Honda has drawn her inspiration from nature, arts and the other sources to create each of her hand-drawn drafts. She reproduces her works through weaving every delicate blur, overlapping accent and nuance in lifelike detail, fully integrating reversible-figure double weaving and other approaches that enable to express the elements such as light and wind.
Even the materials are chosen with extreme deliberation: Honda carefully selects only the most suitable threads, dyes and weaving techniques to fit with the final image, which devote her full attention to each intricate step of the overall process until the piece is complete.
In these ways, she alone handles everything from planning and concept design through the woven textiles design as part of one integrated process. So, this is a very unusual textiles brand that pursue the complex originality even planning and creating the fabrics though considering the new weaving techniques with new patents.
With an emphasis on concepts and techniques originating in Japan, Honda expresses her individualism through textiles exhibiting a fusion of traditional weaving techniques, represented most widely by obi sashes and the like, with contemporary design aesthetics. Japan in today is characterized by a blend of Japanese and Western styles and cultural influences. As a designer, Honda does not limit herself to Western approaches only, but also breaks the mold of the tradition and gives birth to powerful new textiles design.
She infuses her works with the changes of Japanese four seasons, which have contrasts of light and shadow, depictions of water and air flow and other nature-related concepts rooted in Japanese sensibilities.
You can enjoy a rich tapestry of expression that changes by the light strikes the fabrics.
It is the artist's hope that the textiles brand, Sumiko Honda will invoke and communicate the aesthetic senses and sensibilities inherent in Japanese culture and thought.
She also aims to add a bit of extra color to the lives for everyone who reside in the city—as a counterbalance to daily uneasiness and stress—and enrich their day-to-day routines through the provision of new hope and greater peace of mind.