YOROKE-ORI (Ondulé Weaving)
by Yukiko Yokoyama
September 6, 2025 - October 6, 2025
Loop of the Loom – Dumbo
197 Plymouth St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
This is a rare opportunity to admire Yokoyama's breathtaking textile artworks, combining her yoroke-ori with warp dyeing, leaving a profound impression on all who visit.
Join a part of New York Textile Month 2024 for an exciting event featuring a Japanese textile artist Yukiko Yokoyama, renowned for her YOROKE-ORI (aka Onduree weaving technique). This is a rare opportunity to admire Yokoyama's breathtaking textile artworks, combining her yoroke-ori with warp dyeing, leaving a profound impression on all who visit.
This solo exhibition in New York, after a hiatus of 8 years, aims to present a culmination of her Yoroke-ori work to date, bridging it to the next generations. Yokoyama, will bring her works and passion from Japan to attend the event and hopes that many people will have the opportunity to see about yoroke-ori. Yokoyma also will offer her weaving and dyeing workshop during the New York Textile Month.
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Meet the artist
Yukiko Yokoyama
Yukiko Yokoyama is one of Japan's leading contemporary hand weaving artists.
With a weaving experience spanning 50 years, Yokoyama founded her textile studio Dream Weaver (夢織りびと) in Japan in 1977 and has since opened classes in three cities, nurturing numerous students. As she explored through teaching, Yokoyama has been particularly captivated by the allure of yoroke-ori, and has developed her unique techniques one after another combining them with dyeing techniques. "Yoroke" is the weaving that is characterized by wave-like patterns created by altering the spacing of warp threads using specialized fan-shaped reeds, and Yokoyama is one of the few Yoroke weavers in the world.