Mary Taguchi’s timeless, much-loved work with Japanese indigo dyed cottons is now housed in Mingei Store House, Village Square, Bungendore, NSW, 30 minutes from Canberra.
The Mingei Store House is a small space, named from its form being similar to the Japanese storehouse or kura.
This is where completed work: shirts, jackets, bags, hats, cushions and tableware, off cuts and some fabrics by the metre are for sale. The beautifully simple mugs and plates of Sandy Lockwood share the store house space; ceramics and textiles make a perfect pair of functional simplicity and modest elegance, based on the principles of the Mingei philosophy . . . quality, functional, handcrafted, small studio runs.
As well as the store house, MIngei Studio is around the corner, down a country lane. Old and new Japanese cotton country textiles, collected for many years by Mary Taguchi, are cut and pieced together from this studio. Fabrics are available for purchase, by appointment.
Mingei Store House
A modest space, typical of a Japanese storehouse, full of indigo dyed textiles, cotton clothing, accessories and ceramics
3 Village Square
25 Malbon Street
Bungendore, NSW 2621
Phone: 02 6238 1185
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 10am-5pm
Mingei Studio
A classic, old Australian shed, in a quiet country lane behind Mingei Store House, restored to house a private gallery and textiles for sale.
Gordon Lane
Bungendore, NSW 2621
Phone: 0412 480 254
By appointment only