Old Textile Art Chingireya — Local services in Kyoto

4 stars for the lovely old fabrics but 0 stars for the grumpy (bordering on angry) shop owner who spoke down / belittled us saying things like:" oh you dont know, about this - it's very old", "this is very expensive and not for you".....etc....Little did he did know that both my friend and I are collectors with a combined 60 years working internationally in textile design. We gave hm the benefit of the doubt and tried to explain even in a little Japanese that we understood many of the techniques (kinpaku, shibori, katazome, aizome, etc....) but he wasn't having it! haha - we would have spent some nice money there if he wasn't so dang cantankerous....Too bad as he has nice pieces but should hire someone to deal with the (mostly foreign) shoppers that are currently spending money in this neighborhood - shame on him....Better to go across the street and buy old textiles from OLD TEXTILE KONJAKU NISHIMURA - they were welcoming and patient ith us - hence we dropped a few hundred...

So many beautiful fabrics - my favorites being the indigo dyed with traditional wood block printing techniques. Some of the fabrics were over 300 years old!!

The couple that work there are so pleasant. We bought a 110 year old piece of cotton linen and are in the process of framing it...

Ich war in Kyoto auf der Suche nach alten japanischen Textilien, die mit indigo gefärbt wurden und bin zielgerichtet zu diesem Laden gefahren. Ich habe in Japan keinen vergleichbaren unfreundlichen Menschen wie den Verkäufer/Inhaber dieses Ladens angetroffen. Er hatte weder Muße seine Stoffe zu zeigen noch die angemessene Bildung zu antiken Textilien, da er sehr stumpfe Antworten gab. Schade um die schönen Stoffe. Hier will man keinen Cent lassen. Ein paar Meter weiter ist ein weiterer Laden mit textilen Stoffen, exzellenter Bedienung und...