The loss of know-how is an increasingly topical issue. Many craft techniques tend to be forgotten over time. In the case of silk marbling, a technique that was originally developed in Western Europe in the 17th century, there is today only one family in Japan that knows how to master it. But the mastery is well guarded, no secrets about the creation process, the recipe or the material are revealed.

That’s why I’ve tried to rediscover this almost-forgotten printing practice and bring it back to life. To dive back into old production technique, to understand it, to learn it and to adapt it to contemporary use. 

This series of scarves is a way of opening up to this problematic, of the exclusive preserve of knowledge and its private property. Knowledge must live on and be perpetuated, and we must be involved in passing on and sharing processes and practices. The scarfs therefore traces the history of this technique, through the motif and the text, and acts as a banner against this loss of knowledge, advocating values of sharing, learning and evolution.