始まりの糸

お蚕さんから材をいただき、京都西陣で繭から生糸へ、

そして精練・染色されて光沢のある色鮮やかな正絹糸に生まれ変わります。

ここからAKEの物語が始まります。

Threads to start our story

The silk filaments of this card set, which you untie now, is the very essential material to make all the AKE products. Silk material is the gift from silkworms.

It is processed intoraw silk in Nishijin, Kyoto, and after refinement and dying processes shimmering bright colored pure silk threads are produced. 

That's where our story of “AKE” starts.

誰かの"手"

どこかで誰かが何かを受け継ぎ、

そしてまた次へ、

そんな一つ一つの繋がりがいつしか伝統と呼ばれるようになります。

ここ西陣工房では、

今日も誰かの“手”が人知れずひたむきに動いています。

Inheritance from hands to hands

Someone takes over something from someone else in somewhere, and carries on into others, and in time every one of continual transmission is called tradition. Also at Nishijin Workshop dedicatedhands of inheritance are moving to achieve own mission.

AKE Special Production Team

 （ＡＫＥプロダクト製作　西陣工房）

かつては絶え間なく人の行き来があり華やかな商業の地であった京都・西陣で、

 後継者不足に悩む伝統産業“西陣織”と、

やりがいのある仕事を手に入れて

自立したいという意欲をもつ障がいのある人々の橋渡し役として、

質の高い技術職人を育成する「障害者就労支援事業所西陣工房」。

その熱い想いに深く共感した地元の職人や織元の協力を得て、

メンバーは脈々と受け継がれてきた西陣織・京組紐の多くの工程を、

長い時間をかけてゆっくりと経験を積み重ね、技を磨き上げてきました。

AKE Special Production Team Nishijin Workshop

Nishijin area used to be one of bustling commercial hearts in Kyoto and peoplewere coming and going constantly. However, today the traditional Nishijin Textile Industry nurtured in this area has been slumping due to the shortage of successors. NIshijin Workshop was founded in order to bridge this traditional technique and the disabled persons who have strong desires to engage in challenging tasks, and they are committed to foster qualified craft-workers.

With the help of the craft-workers and the community in NIshijin who deeply feel empathy for their desire, the staffs of Nishijin Workshop have been polishing up their techniques through accumulation of experience with time and care in the various operation processes of traditional Nishijin textile and Kyoto braided cords.