Sitting down with Japan's most unconventional influencer

Meet Bernd Kestler, a German knitter living in Japan. He sits down to talk to us about moving to Japan in the 80s, his love for knitting, and exactly how he's established this unconventional career in Japan.

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0:00 Intro

0:45 Meet Bernd

7:08 First interest in knitting

12:32 Knitting in Japan

14:55 Knitting full-time

16:54 Knitting in Japan vs. Germany

22:27 Understanding knitting designs

24:03 Japanese knitting designs

28:33 Guiness record blanket for Tohoku

37:07 First knitting book

42:29 Japanese yarn

44:28 How the book affected his career

46:51 Translating knitting concepts to Japanese

49:36 Collaboration with Komeda Coffee

54:10 Knitting creative projects

58:55 Japanese color palettes

1:01:30 Those spiky things on the table

1:08:51 Looking back

1:16:29 Knitting innovation

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