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Turning Sketches into Stitches
Sewing Machine Embroidery by Nutel Watanabe Eri
Flowers and leaves are drawn with thin black lines on a white canvas. The lines appear to be slightly wavering. Upon closer inspection, you will notice that they are threads embroidered using a sewing machine.
Capturing Memories and Sceneries on Ultra-thin Fabric
Shibori dyeing artist Miona Shimizu
Countless small grains are clumped together into a mass, while sphere-like objects made of thin cloth are placed gently on a platform. The former looks like some deep-sea creature and the latter perhaps, a visualization of wind.
— What could these be?
Interview: Adriana Torres
An Argentinian embroidery artist travelling the world
Her embroidery is characterized by subtle and soft tones using many stitches techniques.
She will be holding an embroidery workshop at WALNUT Kyoto, and we spoke with her to learn more about her work and career.
She will be holding an embroidery workshop at WALNUT Kyoto, and we spoke with her to learn more about her work and career.
Wear and enjoy embroidery on clothing
Wakako Horai, embroidery artist
This is a collar embroidered with pretty flowers. You will instantly look gorgeous just by layering it over a dress or shirt.
Pure Joy in Bag Form
Wicker Darling’s figural woven rattan bags
A Wicker Darling bag reminds us that a bag can be a lot more than a simple container; it should essentially be one’s companion for the day.
Suzani, Uzbek embroidered textile
Preserving handwork for the future
Suzani, a cloth embroidered with colorful silk threads that fill the surface, has long been handmade by women in Uzbekistan and other parts of Central Asia.
Inheriting straw craft techniques and turning them into wearable art
Hanase WARA
Momoko Fujii
A graceful, ruffled bracelet. Earrings like leaves that nestle close to the ears. The basis of her creations is a traditional handcraft, straw work.
The Pop and Colorful World of
Pipe Cleaner Craft
Takuma Fujisaki
These Monster Aliens, made solely of colorful and pop pipe cleaners, are the main monsters that comprise Takuma Fujisaki’s “Mogol World.”
Labor and Love, Bead by Bead
“Boozhoo!”
Madison Holler, the founding artist of Rubinski Works based in Minnesota, greeted me with this word as we began conversing via email.
Passing on the Art of Handcrafted Woodblock Prints to the Next Generation
Takezasa-do, a woodblock printing studio-cum-store, established as Takenaka Mokuhan in the Meiji period, occupies a machiya, a traditional wooden townhouse, located in a narrow alleyway of Kyoto.
Beautiful handwork that gives new life to fabric scraps
Laboratorio quattro is known for their patchwork bojagi (or pojagi).
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