It is a delight to discover and review Susan J. Byrd's thoroughly researched and spirited celebration of shifu, the Japanese art of weaving with paper thread traditionally made from the inner bark of trees. As a college senior, Byrd's interest in making washi, Japanese paper, took her to Japan and to a live-in apprenticeship with Sadako Sakurai, a skilled shifu weaver. At the end of a year of shifu immersion, she approached the task of creating her own exquisitely beautiful shifu kimono using a 40/2 cotton warp and a 3 mm wide paper-weft thread. By publishing her book twenty-five years later, she has shared her lifelong commitment to help preserve the shifu tradition, now recognized by the Japanese government as an intangible and cultural property.
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机译：发现并回顾Susan J. Byrd对shifu的深入研究和热烈庆祝是一件令人高兴的事，shifu是日本的传统编织艺术，用传统的树皮内部树皮制成的纸线编织而成。作为大学四年级学生，伯德（Byrd）对制作和纸（日本纸）的兴趣将她带到了日本，并与熟练的十夫织工樱井贞子（Sadako Sakurai）一起当了学徒。在使用Shifu浸入一年后，她开始着手使用40/2棉经线和3 mm宽的纸纬线创建自己精美的shifu和服。通过二十五年后的出版，她分享了她毕生致力于保护世俗传统的承诺，如今日本政府已将其视为非物质和文化财产。
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