At Home with Venetia in Kyoto Season 7, Episode 4: Vol.105 Learning from the Wisdom of Predecessors

Vol.102 Things That are Handed Down

Vol.103 Life in an Old Japanese-style House

Vol.104 Spring - The Season of Beginnings

Vol.106 How to Spend Summer

Vol.107 The Bounties from an Island - Setouchi

Vol.108 Leaving It to Nature

Going along with the seasons, Venetia makes cocoa butter cream to soothe her skin tanned from the garden work in summer and cleans the wood stove with lavender vinegar in preparation for the coming winter. The tulip bulbs she plants are for the spring. She visits the herb garden of Noriko, an old friend who helps her with the garden work. A certified instructor of floral designs, she makes seasonal wreaths from wild herbs so that more people can appreciate the beauty of wild flowers.

Vol.109 Cherish the Bonds - The Izumo Region in Shimane

During a trip to the Izumo region in Shimane Prefecture, Venetia, British by birth, visits a kiln associated with the British potter Bernard Leach. In the early Showa era, he visited this area and taught such techniques as slipware. Encountering this legacy of her motherland thrills Venetia. At an old indigo-dyeing workshop, she is amazed at the craftsmanship of a rare technique called tsutsugaki, which is found in beautiful furoshiki wrapping cloths brides in this area have traditionally taken with them.