SASHIKO as a product to be purchased
2022-08-19
SASHIKO was once lost Sashiko is one of the Japanese folk crafts which has been passed on for hundreds of years. But it doesn’t mean most Japanese people ( or women ) are able to stitch sashiko. Actually, sashiko had been culturally lost during the high economic growth in the 1950s because they no longer […]
Thread thickness choice guide (Hitomezashi)
2021-06-22
How should we distinguish different thickness of threads? When you look for the sashiko threads, you’ll find them in different thickness. Generally speaking, if the labels say “細” it means “thin” and “太” indicates “thick”. But when we compare them from different manufacturers, the thread thickness varies greatly. For example, sometimes “太(thick)” threads from certain […]