The Mark of Beauty

Hanger (2017x6)

: 12, 2017

This episode features clothes hangers. Don't miss the skills involved in fashioning premium-quality wooden hangers with flowing curves. The craftsmen make a point of studying the curves and contours of the body using their planer technique. We look at custom-made hangers designed to fit in with the surroundings of a 300-year-old traditional inn in Kyoto, as well as hangers traditionally crafted by bending and folding a single strand of bamboo. Handcrafted hangers have stories to tell. Oddly shaped versions made more than a century ago tells us what people's lives were like back then.