These are part of my creative work. I am a designer in Japan,
and am mainly producing textile works.
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Jun Nakai or Nakai Jun
Back to Nature
31 Hometextile
I am here if you look for textile designer named Nakai Jun.
My works and the interview were published
by No:2010-11-92 of 31hometextile.

Transparent Vermilion

Before sunset,We can see many colors in the sky.
Turquoise light not to still return to.
The vermilion west try to accept the moon.
The clouds who stray which it should be dyed.
That sky is transparent vermilion.

This fabric is made of yarn dyed, which uses tight twisted of ramie100% yarn
And as much as possible between the yarn and the yarn making the space,
it creating transparent and dry and smooth texture.

The wave at the moment

please go to beach to see the small ripples at low tide wave.

I wanted to express the moment of the wave that moves.
For that, I used that Three raw silk yarns were tight twisted to one.
And another element is yarn dyed linen of made in Italy.
These linen were inserted in irregularly into the fabric.
woven fabric by tight twisted silk is going to shrink.
By the movement of silk,linen yarns trying to make waves.
This fabric made for scarf to escape from sunshine.

The river of wind

If you can stand still in deep forest,what are you can feel?
The whisper of trees and sunbeams shining through branches of trees
will serve as a river of a wind, and will pass the inside of your body.
This cloth is an ink jet print of my drawing on the silk chiffon.
The watercolor blur was able to faithfully reproduce.

Trees vibration

It lives with trees.
Touch the tree and try to talk.
Do not forget vibration of the earth at the time.
This fabric used linen in the length string and cotton was used for the width string.
This fabric is expressed uneven surface by some fabric constructions.

Earthy aroma

I cultivate the ground and am making the field.
Agricultural chemicals etc. are not used, and various vegetables are grown for myself.
I appreciate the ground which always raised delicious vegetables at the time of harvest.

This fabric used various materials, in order to express that the ground which is visible to
a flat apparently has an expression complicated in fact.
It wove it with the fabric constructions of georgette so that of each might appear at random.
The warp was making double yarn by linen and wool, and using cotton and the silk slub nep yarn for the weft.

Aqua linen

This　is　a simple fabric of the plain weave of linen,
but it is woven with technique peculiar to Japan.
The yarn of the linen is cut off when it twisted strongly.
However,in Japan, it is twisted hard while wetting using water.
The fabric which was made with the yarn twisted hard can make
the small unevenness on the surface. As a result, it is fresh feeling of wearing.
Because the bonding area of the skin and the cloth decreases.

Windows of forest

Open the window.
When the window is opened, a wind comes in.
If a window is opened, light will jump in.
I feel the force of the forest when I open a window.

This fabric woven at silk 100% is made of double weave.
And, cutting partly, light that tried is transparent.

Memory at the night

Have you walked in the forest at night when the moon light is very bright?
The forest is not the dark at all,You will be able to meet the trees which is shining blue .

This fabric made by ramie and coated cotton(coated by cellulose ).
It printed on this fabric by fine powder of carbon.

Spring Color

Spring flowers came back again with tender colors.
Peach and cherry pink,primrose yellow....

printed on silk. silk 100%

The contents of the interview 

Q1. Please make a brief description of your designing style.

Many of my works use natural raw materials - cotton, silk, and wool etc.
I often got inspired of a lot of simple images of nature such as bark of
trees, layered leaves or seashells on the beach. Then I would like to
get closer to the same images of touch & texture reproduced into my
works using natural raw materials as much as I can. Also I am keen on
using natural materials which should go back to part of ground eventually.

Q2. Which kind of Product is popular with your customers?

Linen is one of my favourite and also very popular to my customers.
My products use tight-twist woven linnen yarn which is only available
at a limited few suppliers in Japan. I thinks suppliers are very rare
who has tight-twist woven linen technology also in Europe.
This linen fabric has strong advanatages of freshness and coolness
compared to normal linen.

Also I made a new fabrics by combining this linen with wool. It is
differentiated autumn/winter products from normal 100% wool for its
unique touch and texture.

Organic linen fabrics is one of my core items for consumers suffering "chemical
allergy". There is an increased number of inqueries for organic products
in recent years.

Q3. To become a really good designer, what qualities and talents can be need in your opinion?

I think what is required for "a designer" is different from those of "an
artist". We as a designer, should start from researches rather than
conceptual works. Designers should not try to find or stick to one
fundaemental ideas but we should be sensitive to our environment and
should have flexible mindset in order to find the best solution for the
client.

What is required for us is to withdraw a vague image of what is in the
client brain. Then we have to actually reproduce them out in reality.
Therefore, we need to train ourselves a lot for those communication
process. After you get this in a certain sucess, the next step is to
further harmonize our own images and clients.

Q4. What do you think about the function of color in fabric?

I think the function of color in fabric is one of critial element of my
works. Not only 'trends color' but also color in general represents our
times. Color heals people, color has power to let people arm.

We select what color to wear depending on our status of mind whether or
not we are awere of it.

Color can change fabrics impression as if it is a magic!

Coloring is the most difficult and stressful works. And coloring is the most
enjoyable momement.