#sashiko

[sockeye-run]

My all purpose, all terrain utility bag, purchased from a creator on TikTok (rip) has already begun to unravel. Which is really unfortunate, it was advertised as a shopping bag, so I did expect it to be more hardy, but it was sewn together with minimal, thin thread for whatever reason. So I mended it with some Sashiko peel and stick patterns from another creator I found on TikTok (rip), Socorro Society. I chose a nice, heavy, radiant red thread, and I'm happy with the result! It feels much more secure. I do think that, in the near future, I will have to reinforce literally all of the seams on this bag, but I guess I'll let fate tell me when it's time to do that lol.

[africanmorning]

[tanuki-kimono]

Great example of everyday noragi (work clothes, worn by farmers for ex.)​ from Taisho period. Note the makisode sleeve shape, offering freedom of mouvement!

You can see the close-up of the weave, made from asa (bast-fiber like hemp or linen) and kamiyori (twisted paper thread​). Despite its "rugged" materials, weave is delicately interlocked with regular black stripes.

The coat also presents geometrical sashiko (white quilting), both reinforcing easily worn areas (collar, hems, inner center back), and decorating the garment.

PSA for writers: please please please don't put characters doing manual labour in "silk" kimono. I'll be forever grateful ;)

[swallowsummer]

I love how sashiko patterns grow.

Before, I’ve patched on the inside, but with jeans I’ve found that they can become a little too tight after multiple patches. Besides, I really like how the fraying edge of the patch adds to the effect.

[georgedontdothat]

sashiko

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Japanese hikeshibanten jacket depicting spider and go board, 19th Century, Seattle Art Museum

[frangipani-wanderlust]

Thick thighs may save lives but they're hell on your wardrobe.

Anyway, please to be appreciating this patch I sewed. Pic of me wearing the jeans tomorrow.

EDIT: This post took off more than I expected. For anyone who likes the colors, I used a combination of these two threads.

Olympus Sashiko Thread, 111 yd - 301 Rainbow

Yokota Sashiko Thread, 40 m - Brown Gold

I wish everyone the best of luck with their projects! :)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Sashiko Jacket

1850-1899 (Meiji Era)

Japan

Sashiko is a quilting technique that uses a running stitch to reinforce and prolong the life of a textile or to join together recycled pieces of cloth into a new garment. Japanese farmers used the technique to create warmer and more durable fabrics, and decorative sashiko stitching developed from this practical function. This robe’s embroidered design is dominated by three variations on the pattern of interlocking circles, called shippō-tsunagi. The bottom band features a design of waves.

The MET (Accession Number: 67.172.1)

[cat-mermaid]

i do a ton of sashiko sewing. Thing is that my aesthetic is very colorful and chaotic so instead of those lovely clean patterns you see online, what I do looks like what a clown would make in the mad max apocalypse: LOTS of different colored threads and fabrics all fused together. My stiches are not even, they are random and upsetting. I know this because I have taken a few sashiko classes and have seen the light go out of the teacher's eyes everytime I showed them my shit

I also have a bad habit of grabbing stuff I want to alter that looks cool but is actually too small, so I hack it apart and Frankenstein it back together in a very deliberately fucked up way to fit me

This stuff feels great and the sashiko stitching makes its feel 1000 times more durable than anything you'd find at stores. Tissue paper jeans I bought 10 years ago at forever 21 now feel like somthing made for sailors to wear while looking like clown desert punk

I'm still not confident about certain things, such as fixing crotch blow out. I took my favorite pair of altered jeans to this tailor recently and told her I just wanted these two rips on the crotch patched. She barely glanced at the neon green jeans and said oh that won't look good and I was like ma'm have you seen the rest of the jeans?

She then actually laid them out and saw my lisa-Frank-enstein jeans and i saw the light go out of her eyes as we stood there in silence

i know i'm doing somthing right ;)

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

thinking today about how much I love literally all fiber arts. I am hopeless at almost every other kind of art, but as soon as there is thread, yarn, or string I can figure it out fairly quickly.

I learned how to knit when i was eight, started sewing at nine, my dad taught me rock climbing knots around that age, I figured out from a book how to make friendship bracelets, I've made my own drop spindle to make yarn with, and more recently I've picked up visible mending. I've learned embroidery through fixing my overalls, and this year I've learned how to darn and how to do sashiko (which I did for the first time today). After years of being unable to crochet I finally figured it out last night and made seven granny squares in just a few hours.

I want to learn every fiber art that I can. I want to quilt, I want to use a spinning wheel, I want to weave, I want to learn tatting, I want to learn how to weave a basket, I want to learn them all. If I could travel through time and meet anyone in the Bible, high on my list are the craftsmen who made the Tabernacle.

I want to travel the world and learn the fiber arts of every culture, from the gorgeous Mayan weaving in Guatemala, to the stunning batik of Java, to Kente in Ghana. I want to sit at the feet of experienced men and women and watch them do their craft expertly and learn from them.

Of every art form I've seen, it's fiber arts that tug most at my heartstrings.

[mycotoxine]

I realised I never posted about this mending I did in July! There was a hole in the elbow area of my shirt but I couldn't just sew it shut since the fabric was very worn out. So I decided to do some sashiko inspired mending to close the hole and reinforce the surrounding fabric.

I used a patch of fabric of the same weight but it's blue so I leaned into that and used blue embroidery thread to make the stitches. Since it's in a sleeve I couldn't use an embroidery hoop, so I glued my patch on the inside with water soluble craft glue (I know there's fabric glues for this purpose but I wanted to know if it would work with what I had, and it did:)). This was less fiddly than pinning or basting the patch in place and it made it a little bit stiffer so it was easier to hold. I drew the outline for the stitches on the patch but in hindsight I would have gotten a neater result if I had drawn them on the outside. Overall I'm pleased with the result, it holds well in the washing machine too.

[the-bibrarian]

mended my jeans using sashiko and I kinda like how it turned out :)

[swallowsummer]

Turns out progress pics work better if you’re awake enough to approach the pattern in a logical order.

I found fine red crochet cotton in a charity shop and am itching to use more of it.

[san-sews-seams]

sashiko is a great tipsy sewing option