As one of the last places still making yuki tsumugi - an entirely handmade silk fabric - Omoigawa Weaving House is full of stories. One that caught my eye were these rotating boxes for the cocoons. According to Naoyuki Akaishi, the silkworms always wanted to travel upwards, which could be problematic. By rotating these boxes each day until the worms settled down to cocoon manufacturing, it satisfied the worms urge and kept things orderly for the farmers.
Read my articles about Omoikawa and yuki tsumugi at GaijinPot and SavvyTokyo.
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