The Converse Chuck Taylor All Star '70 Celebrates the Suminagashi Aesthetic of the '60s & '70s

Some 2,000 years ago, Chinese artisans devised what the Japanese would ultimately perfect as Suminagashi or "ink-floating": an art form where inks are suspended and swirled on a still water surface to create distinctive marbling. 12th century Shinto priests even discovered that adjustments to the water's viscosity and surface tension allowed for the control necessary to create clouds, seas, mountains and full-on landscapes, which ultimately evolved into the motifs that dominated the psychedelic ...