Susan Briscoe Designs
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The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook
The Ultimate Kogin Collection
The Book of Boro
NB - international shipping* is temporarily disabled. New shipping rates by weight will be coming soon!
*EU shipping can only resume when the EU simplifies its VAT regulations on mail orders. Please complain to your MEP to try to change the regs for small non EU businesses! We can't calculate, charge and remit the different amounts of VAT to all 27 EU countries four times a year, when we are one person businesses. It is too much admin and too expensive to employ an EU based agent as currently required.
Dates for your diary for 2023 - we will be at World Textile Day Central, North, Scotland, and Wales,
plus the WTD market at Chipping Norton and WTD Bazzar in Edinburgh - www.worldtextileday.co.uk
Here are all the sashiko sampler squares I stock, aka hanafukin (flower cloths), printed in Japan by Olympus Thread Mfg. Co. on one page! There's almost 90 of them, so keep scrolling...Designs include traditional geometric designs, floral patterns, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, hitomezashi (one stitch sashiko), and kagurizashi (threaded hitomezashi), plus 'just dots' for creating your own hitomezashi patterns.
Easy to follow instruction diagrams with Japanese text (sometimes English, depending on the design). The ideal introduction to sashiko.Hanafukin are used like a cross between a napkin, placemat, and dish cloth, but the traditional sarashi cotton fabric is also suitable for bags, cushions, quilts etc. What will you make and which pattern will you choose?
