Loop of the Loom

Yukako Satone began organizing community spaces while studying visual design in Japan, first opening an avant-garde music venue. She was introduced to contemporary Japanese weaving after raising her daughter in NYC. Encouraged by a childhood friend who ran a textile arts studio for people with disabilities, Atelier SUYO, Yukako brought a Japanese loom back to the U.S, just one month before the tragedy of 9/11. She held her first weaving workshop for grieving friends and children near Ground Zero, and found weaving to be a therapeutic way to heal from the trauma, realizing it was not just a solitary endeavor but a means of connection with others. Traveling to numerous locations to demonstrate weaving as a public art, she discovered that it was a therapy for finding joy in living.