Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
Basement gallery displaying all seventy-four categories of Kyoto's traditional crafts on Japan's largest craft wall.
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This guide to the Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design follows the decline of the city's traditional trades, from the single remaining workshop that still hand-makes a geiko's ornate hairpins to the plunge in nishijin brocade production since the 1970s. Beneath a convention hall called Miyako Messe, it walks you past a wall displaying all seventy-four categories of Kyoto craft, every piece on it made this year and for sale. It closes by asking what buying something here might mean for a craft down to its last maker.
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