Spring picnic season in Japan brings delicate colors: transparent blue skies and the feathery pink of cherry blossoms. When our Japan team invited Chicago studio The Weaving Mill to create a picnic blanket especially for this time of year, they wove together the colors of the season, letting the lengths of the deadstock yarns determine the exact striping pattern.

We love the spirit of improvisation and conservation behind this one-of-a-kind blanket: It’s sure to become a staple in your warm-weather life for years to come.

The Collaboration
Founded in 2015, the Weaving Mill in Chicago is an artist-run industrial weaving studio. In addition to making bespoke textiles, the Weaving Mill collaborates with artists and designers, offers textile education workshops for adults with developmental disabilities, and hosts an experimental artist residency program.

We first partnered with the Weaving Mill in 2021 to create a collection of limited-edition wares meant to facilitate ease and pleasure while doing the things we love most: sharing food and drink with friends. We wanted to bring that spirit back this summer.