Oats & Rice
Brand · Clothing
Oats & Rice founder Shiyi created the company in 2015, shortly after graduating from Winchester School of Art in the UK. She immersed herself in the traditional textile world with overflowing curiosity and passion. At the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, she studied the kasuri (ikat) weaving technique. She also trained under the watchful eye of a Japanese weaving master, learning the craft of making shifu – a fabric woven from washi paper cut into fine strips, twisted into thread, and then woven like yarn.
Her textile journey later took her to Inner Mongolia, where she envisioned the sustainable cashmere supply chain we use today.
