Arimatsu, Japan has a 400-year history of shibori design and production. Around the Meiji era in Japan (early 1900’s), the Arimatsu artisans with their innovative techniques challenged the conventions of shibori at the time. Arimatsu shibori was often characterized by the white ground vs. the dark ground. In this workshop, Hiroshi Murase, 4th generation Artimatsu shibori artisan and designer, currently chairman of the acclaimed Suzusan Corporation--designers of contemporary shibori products-- provides instruction on oboshi and other ground-resist strategies in shibori. Join us to understand the shibori methods that create the white ground! Yoshiko I. Wada, World Shibori Network Foundation founder and internationally recognized scholar on shibori and other textiles throughout the world, moderates the workshop. A PDF of the Chat from this Zoom workshop is also available here. Photo of Instructors by: Katia Gonorovskaya.