A fascinating tour exploring the history of Japanese textiles and fashion in a selection of ukiyo-e prints currently on display lead by Senior Curator at the National Wool Museum, Josephine Rout—discover how these prints reflected the tastes and pleasures of the affluent Edo-period middle class.

Josephine Rout is a former Curator in the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and co-curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk (2020) and author of Japanese Dress in Detail, published by Thames and Hudson (2020).