#sashiko

[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

[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)

[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.

[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 ;)

[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 :)

[heavenly-delusions]

yall i tried visible mending!! but im upset asf no one told me this gonna be hard asf😔(it might be, its just that i hand sewed through 2 tough ass denim fabrics with a blunt ass needle😭😭😭) also i didnt have the ~hack~ paper thingy that u paste onto the fabric to sew on top of so i put marks at d side🤪 i am the architect of my own destruction😇😇😇

and i broke my needle tryna pull it w my teeth when it got stuck lmao🧍🏻‍♀️ now i got broken needle n hurting teeth... its not done yet tho cuz im planning to secure the top and sides of this pocket w this technique, luckily i thought something like this might happen so i bought needles in advance. Might post updates. or not! Who knows

Daily affirmations: say it w me... its not crooked. its super aligned w the lines i put. it looks straight. and pretty... 🥲

[swallowsummer]

My latest sashiko patch, using the asanoha (hemp leaves) pattern.

This is the second mend I’ve done using a tissue paper template. See below for details on how it works (or doesn’t - I’m undecided).

1. Pin your patch in place on the inside of the item of clothing.

2. Trace grid and design onto tissue paper. My tissue is just scrap from packaging. I traced over a quilting ruler to get everything lined up.

3. Pin in place over the fabric. I didn’t bother removing the original pins, but did leave a wide border round the tissue to help with pinning.

4. Use the pattern guide to sew, stitching through the tissue, original fabric and reinforcing fabric. The tissue will start to tear as you do this. I took out all the pins once I’d stitches all the vertical lines.

5. Peel away the tissue paper and your pattern is revealed! I actually did this a little early, as I had enough lines in place to complete the pattern without a template.

This is the second time I’ve tried this approach. It is really good for getting an accurate pattern - I’ve never had much luck with marking grids straight onto the fabric. However, it does make it really hard to get the fine details right, as the paper obscures them as you’re stitching. That’s why the centre points on my piece look so messy - I just couldn’t see where the other stitches were.

[i-am-still-bb]

More mending - this time for the heel-bites on my partner’s jeans

These are also a bit of an experiment to compare the durability of the more dense/less dense patterns.

Why so much mending? My mending/alteration basket was full and nothing else could be added, so it was time to deal with the items.

[lin-fong]

sashiko style jeans or something

[upcycleqween45]

Mending soothes my soul when life is loud🪡♻️