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eosvartauga · 1 year
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Edo era Sashiko-Embroidered Hanten
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fashionsfromhistory · 5 months
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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)
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lucillesharpeapologist · 11 months
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New mend on an old pair of jeans. Planning to flare them at some point
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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.
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africanmorning · 8 months
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*Knee of my pants tears*
Me: Clearly the only logical course of action is to create an embroidery pattern of Master Chief by hand on graph paper, cut up an old curtain, and use modified cross-stitch through two layers of fabric to put John Halo Himself on my otherwise crappy pair of jeans.
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Bad photo of the pattern I made in case anyone else wants it (I might try to digitize it later, Idk):
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lady-bee-holmes · 8 months
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As requested, here’s the progress on one of my “completed” whales :) Naturally, I still have to edge it and attach it to the jacket, but it’s so sparkly.
You can also see my nice antique pincushion in the back :)
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zegalba · 1 year
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PROLETA RE ART: Uroboros Repaired Denim Jeans Made with Handwoven Japanese Fabric From The Late 1800's (2022)
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duerede · 11 months
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I've been embroidering on this denim jacket for about a month now, adding little colourful details that really press the satisfaction button in my brain. Some of it is sashiko, or sashiko-inspired, as I'm trying to learn that style. Many fingers have been sacrificed in this process. The dotted red and white cuff is added as a visible mending detail.
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punk-stitches · 2 years
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Visible Mending
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Based in the Japanese art of Sashiko embroidery, visible mending is an art form that embraces the wear and tear on garments, turning them into their own art. Mending is a skill that has gotten a bit lost amongst industrialization and fast fashion, but it's an incredibly important life skill that is ! It extends the life of your clothes, saves you money, and is a form of self-expression.
Traditional Sashiko is done using running or single stitches in white or blue thread on indigo-dyed fabric, there are many traditional motifs and forms created through the manipulation of the main stitches. While modern Sashiko and visible mending mix colours, patterns, and stitches. Sashiko artists use specific needles and threads on cotton fabric, but visible mending can be done with any needles and threads on any material.
My mending journey started with wool socks, which are expensive these days, but in my opinion are the very best socks for brutal winters. I had several pairs of socks or knit slippers from my late-aunt, which they were the last pieces she made me and so, I taught myself how to mend! To me, mending embraces the history of the garment, the maker, and you, the wearer. Personally, my favourite type of visible mending uses whatever scraps I have in the same colour as the garment stitched using contrast threads, such as the red and black in the second photo. Although, if you want a more subtler mend, the greens and blues of the first photo strike a nice balance.
Links to learn more:
Wada, Yoshiko Iwamoto, “Boro no Bi : Beauty in Humility—Repaired Cotton Rags of Old Japan” (2004). Textile Society of America 9th Biennial Symposium. 458.
Visible Mending - MEND!
Sayraphim Lothian author of Guerilla Kindness and Other Acts of Creative Resistance. (Very good if you are like me and prefer a physical guide).
Caldecott, Sophie. “A Beginner’s Guide to Mending Your Clothing” (2021). Sustainably Chic.
EGA. “Introduction to Visible Mending” (2020). Embroiderers’ Guild of America.
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hyenaswine · 1 year
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i think the pants patch came out pretty cool!!! this is my first proper try at sashiko; i used perl cotton & sulky solvy water-soluble stabilizer (& a pattern from a sashiko book i picked up at a library sale). i wanted to reenforce the whole crotchal region since i tend to rip pants there. unfortunately i don't know how to photograph my own ass while wearing them
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basketofmooneggs · 1 year
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Easy T-shirt Patch Instructions
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The left image is the outside of the shirt and the right is the inside. You can kinda see the black fabric through the hole on the outside, but it's mostly obscured by the plus sign embroidery.
This is super easy to do. All I did was cut a square from a scrap t-shirt that isn't being worn anymore and pin it to the inside of the shirt that needs mending. I'd recommend tensioning both the shirt and the patch fabric the same amount. I stretched them over a darning mushroom.
Then I took two strands of embroidery floss and, working from the inside of the shirt, where the patch is visible, I ran rows of running stitches trying to alternate inside versus outside stitches between the rows. This helped maintain a relatively consistent stitch length and also makes the next step easier.
Once I'd finished making all the rows of running stitches in one direction, I started going in the opposite direction perpendicular to my original stitches to make plus signs. The key thing to remember is that whenever a stitch is not visible on the backside, it is visible on the front. The goal is to make an even pattern of plusses on the front and back, but it's more important for it to look good on the front.
With every row of stitches, for both directions, I made sure to catch the edge of the patch to tack it down securely. Once all rows of stitches are done in both directions, the only thing left to do is anchor the loose ends. You can see on the right image that I just ran some of the extra thread under the stitches on the back and then cut off the excess. That way it'll be secure and there won't be a stray thread brushing up against you.
This is a variation of sashiko mending that is quick and easy and useful when you don't want to or can't darn the hole in the fabric.
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chessboxingstreetwear · 3 months
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APPLIED ART FORMS
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antheiamiya · 1 year
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finished the tea mat:) might make a couple more later if this dye takes to the fabric okay
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Some recent mends
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More visible mending
Latest shashiko-inspired visible mending:
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lazulisong · 6 months
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OH SHIT IM A GENIUS of course i need more sashiko samplers, i need them to wrap around ice packs!!!
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