Nagai sashiko faction
"Sashiko” is a needlework technique of sewing or stitching cloth together.
About 400 years ago, the Tohoku region developed a unique technique to keep warm by layering cotton cloth, which was considered very precious at the time, to ward off the severe cold, and used it carefully while reinforcing it.
At the time, stitching was used for reinforcement and protection from the cold, but as each region developed its own methods, patterns, and techniques, each region developed its own unique style of stitching.
In 1978, Ms. Mie Suzuki, the vice president of the Yamagata Women's Federation, decided to preserve the tradition of Nagai Sashiko by collecting flower rags (stitched to reinforce the cloth) left in old houses in the Nagai area through an acquaintance, unraveled the stitches, learned the technique, and developed and spread her own method.
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It is said that there are more than 100 original designs that were devised by unraveling the sashiko patterns from collected rags and developing them.
We are now carrying on and developing this tradition through our Sashiko classes.
"Nagai Sashiko" was once so close to Mt. Bandai that it was possible to see it from the Okiya area (the mountain collapsed due to a steam explosion and the view was poor), so it is common to apply Sashiko to Aizu cotton, a specialty of Aizu Wakamatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture.
This is a unique method of sewing along 4㎜ to 1㎝ squiggles on cotton fabric, using vertical, horizontal, diagonal and "kuguri sashiko" stitching techniques.
Without drawing a rough sketch as in stitching, various basic patterns can be created depending on where the thread is placed on the drawn lines.
These basic patterns are combined to create unique works of art.
We are now carrying on and developing this tradition through our Sashiko classes.
"Nagai Sashiko" was once so close to Mt. Bandai that it was possible to see it from the Okiya area (the mountain collapsed due to a steam explosion and the view was poor), so it is common to apply Sashiko to Aizu cotton, a specialty of Aizu Wakamatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture.
This is a unique method of sewing along 4㎜ to 1㎝ squiggles on cotton fabric, using vertical, horizontal, diagonal and "kuguri sashiko" stitching techniques.
Without drawing a rough sketch as in stitching, various basic patterns can be created depending on where the thread is placed on the drawn lines.
These basic patterns are combined to create unique works of art.
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