Japanese technique

Japanese artist Maki Hino was born on may 4 on the evening of the full moon in Nagano Prefecture (Japan). Lives and works there. Maki started drawing paper dolls from early childhood. In 1993, she became interested in articulated dolls, and in 1997 decided that she would be engaged in dolls ...

Many see patchwork as a lovely thing, but gaudy grandma's quilts and country rugs of wild colors. However, this technique has long outgrown the purely utilitarian stage of "use all unnecessary". Today it is a full-fledged type of needlework, and patches turn into stylish modern things ...

I want to show you how to use a Japanese embroidery technique of sashiko which was created in the 17th century. I will embroider on cotton fabric with white embroidery floss. Here I have a pouch with white lining. Initially was going to make a grid  layout on the fabric using a special "write ...

The study of embroidery starts with the understanding of how to use silk thread; then you learn the basics of the work that are so typical for Japanese embroidery and almost never used in other cultures. This is followed by the understanding of the nature of each motif so that the correct thread ...