NUNO textiles paper

Mimicking and improving on nature: Nuno, Junichi Arai and Reiko Sudo By Jacquelyn Gray “Nuno” is the simplest and most humble Japanese term for cloth – although the company’s output is anything but. Since its founding in 1984 by metal textiles and... More

Mimicking and improving on nature: Nuno, Junichi Arai and Reiko Sudo By Jacquelyn Gray “Nuno” is the simplest and most humble Japanese term for cloth – although the company’s output is anything but. Since its founding in 1984 by metal textiles and computer-aided design pioneer Junichi Arai and his protégé Reiko Sudo, the company has combined art and science, creating fabrics that are both imaginative and high performance. Much of their intellectual energy seems to have gone into a particularly Japanese pursuit – honoring nature through various forms of imitation. Nuno has particularly distinguished itself by imitating metal and other crystalline forms using state of the art technical processes, many developed by Arai and Sudo. Not only is their work breathtakingly beautiful, some of it has turned out to be useful. With the increased interest in technical textiles over the past 15 years or so, a lot has been written about the Japanese ability to combine art and industry, soft and r Less