« Fashion depends on the people they wear » – Diepresse.com

In the workshop, the Jacquardweber sit like in small cocoons or specially built around them: on a padded crossbeam, on the left and right of them the side limits, in front of them in a complicated manner. The threads that are needed for the unification of the Jacquard patterns run down from above, including the craftsmen in jerky movements with a wooden footbridge that, in the factumura weaving in Kyoto, do not exceed the width of an OBI belt. Years ago, there were still difficulties in searching for young people, an employee says during the work tour that it is luckily different today. The interest in the handicap is increasing again, and demand is obviously not drying up.

Now he introduces his group of visitors to a loom: « This is our long -term and oldest employee. » Since when the Lord has been part of the workforce – he has an alterless effect and has worked unimpressed from the fawns – someone from the group asks. « 75 years, » replies the translator, who accompanies the small delegation – which of course everyone thinks as a case of « Lost in Translation », who even risen in Japan.

But at least, a 75-year-old who is still so concentrated on weaving. « No, he is 90 years old, and he has been working for us for 75 years, » it becomes clear again. The other end of the age spectrum starts at around twenty years, so young people are really taken care of. And because of any planned attachment of the retirement age (Japan is definitely a special case anyway), you don’t have to worry, at least with Tatsumura.