In his February 10, 2015 article on the dying art of kimono production on the island of Amami Oshima, Japan\u00a0(“Old Ways Prove Hard to Shed, Even as Crisis Hits Kimono Trade”, The New York Times), \u00a0Martin Fackler describes in detail the labor intensive steps of that \u00a0craft. This is very helpful in\u00a0explaining to the public why such garments sell for more than $3,000 apiece. \u00a0He notes that the people who create them make less money than fishermen, farmers and\u00a0loggers and that few young people now choose to study the techniques.
\nAs salaries for conservators fail to keep up with the increasing cost of living, how soon might we\u00a0read\u00a0in the general press about a\u00a0\u00a0situation where there are few people who wish to put in the time, effort and expense to become conservators when there are better paying careers which require much less in the way of preparation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In his February 10, 2015 article on the dying art of kimono production on the island of Amami Oshima, Japan\u00a0(“Old Ways Prove Hard to Shed, Even as Crisis Hits Kimono Trade”, The New York Times), \u00a0Martin Fackler describes in detail the labor intensive steps of that \u00a0craft. This is very helpful in\u00a0explaining to the public … Continue reading “Will conservation suffer the same fate as the kimono industry of Amami Oshima?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}