Mending & Patchworking with fabric scrap is an important part of Sashiko. Howeve

Mending & Patchworking with fabric scrap is an important part of Sashiko. However, stitching “to avoid” mending, and appreciating the fabric before it becomes scrap, are more “Core” elements of Sashiko. Stitching a beautiful design like other embroidery, and framing it for the wall decor is one beautiful way to enjoy Sashiko. However, the Japanese believed, the core “beautiful” of folk art or practice like Sashiko exists in the “Ordinary usage” – here we interpret & understand it using Sashiko stitched items for our days as “cloth” or “bag”.
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We can count the number of reasons to change what Sashiko is. However, there are still Japanese who try to follow those “making fabric stronger” & “trying to use them as our daily items”. There aren’t many, but there are. My workshop is a start point of this type of Sashiko – with sharing both technique & mindset. I am visiting NYC for the workshop for the first time after the world changed. To Berkely, CA, for toward the end of this month (around 7/25). It is my sincere pleasure to share the Sashiko we have been practicing.
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Join our Thursday Live Session tonight to see Atsushi’s actual stitching as well as listen to random stories with no editing. Sashiko is about stitching – but because it is related to Japanese culture, it is more than stitching for many people who read this in English.
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作品制作の仕立ても可能ですが、なかなか新しいことには挑戦できていないのが正直なところ。ぼんぼんで育った私の仕立ては素人同然。なんとかお洒落な仕立て技術を学びたいと思いながら、目の前のことに一生懸命になってしまいなかなか形にできていません。言い訳なのですが、できてくる作品はどうしても古い感じのものが多く、新しさは感じません。
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同時に、「これで良いのかもしれない」とも思っています。刺し子においてとても大切な仕立てという過程ですが、主役ではなかったりします。布に針を通して強くすることが刺し子であれば、仕立てはあくまで修飾的な役割と、「日常的に支える」という昔ながらの役割があります。どれだけお洒落でも、土で汚れて後悔するようなものは、「本質にこだわった刺し子」ではないのかもしれません。いや、でも、素敵な刺し子は土で汚したくはないなぁ（笑）矛盾を抱えながら、それでも針を動かし続けようと思うのです。金曜日、また配信でお会いできたら嬉しいです。
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2022-07-08 03:10:39

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