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Sakaiseikisangyo Co. Ltd.
613-1, Murodo-cho, Izumi
Osaka 594-1101 Japan
Tel: +81-725-57-7022
Fax: +81-725-57-7023
email: contact@sakaiseiki.com
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HISTORY OF SAKAISEIKI
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Sakaiseiki was founded by Riichiro Jo, the former President of Sakaiseiki.  Riichiro is husband of Misao Jo, the founder of SAORI Weaving.  Sakaiseiki used to sell the machinery parts for power weaving machines since 1940's.  But in 1970's, Sakaiseiki started to develop and produce hand weaving looms to meet the needs from the weavers learning SAORI Weaving from Misao.  Misao's original methods of SAORI Weaving had just started to be welcomed wide in public. 

Kenkenzo_misao1.jpgzo Jo, the present President of Sakaiseiki and the third son of Riichiro and Misao, was involved in the development and production of the hand weaving loom since the beginning.  He built the very first SAORI loom in 1969 to make a very simple and friendly loom for his mother.  Then he kept improving his design to make a better loom, more suitable for the concepts and philosophy of SAORI Weaving.  In accordance with the SAORI Weaving becoming more and more popular, the SAORI looms also spread throughout the country.  After 40 years, now the both SAORI Weaving and SAORI looms are welcomed all over the world.

For more information about SAORI Weaving, please visit our English-language website saoriglobal.com, the new website Sakaiseiki created to help networking of English-speaking SAORI Weavers in the world.

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In 2004, Sakaiseiki built Saori-no-mori, the SAORI Weaving Studio and loom manufacturing site, in Izumi, Osaka, Japan.  All the SAORI looms, accessories and weaving threads are produced here, and sent to the weavers in all over the world.  Thanks to its unique concept and nice environment surrounded by the beautiful woods, the Saori-no-mori studio has been so popular that it welcomed more than 10,000 people in last 5 years.

kids5.jpgFor more information about Saori-no-mori, please go to its independent website at:

http://www.saorinomori.com

English pages are available!
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