Toshinobu Takamitsu is an artist blacksmith and craftsman who runs a studio and craft shop named ‘Open Studio’ in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. After learning design in college, he studied glass blowing in the UK and became a successful glassware maker.
Later, he studied blacksmithing in the US, and began making wood stoves and other iron products. He then focused his attention on the brooms used for cleaning the stoves made with his own unique way of weaving. He thus began creating brooms using all sorts of objects to act as rods including the neck of stringed instruments, hockey sticks, golf clubs, and pool cues.
He learned how to tie and dye the thread used to hold the corn grass together from his wife, a professional weaver. In the future, he hopes to establish a school that will make learning product-making techniques more accessible. "source of text R-space website Copyright 2014"
My photos of the gallery exhibit
Picture of the great and inspiring art installations
I wanted to let the static light bring the natural detail of the work to life.
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