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Pattern for book cover
Pattern Design

Surface Pattern for Book Cover Design

October 21, 2019 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

I was commissioned to create a surface pattern design for a book cover.

wood-block printing
Printmaking

Block Printing Illustration

August 17, 2018 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

I made a block printing sample. The image is taken from an old picture I took. The size of the wood block was too small (postcard size) so I couldn’t carv...

drawing of cats on sketchbook
Sketchbook

Cats Drawing

August 16, 2018 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

I tried to draw a lots of cats with only my memories. It’s an experimental drawing, trying different styles, medium and surfaces, etc. It was fun but frus...

embroidery 刺繍
Embroidery

Embroidered Covered Buttons

May 20, 2018 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

It’s been a while since I started embroidery and here are some pictures of work in progress and finished work. Cross stitching is fun and making patterns ...

pattern design
Print

Block Printing and New Pattern Design

September 17, 2017 by Hitomi / 3 Comments

I’ve been designing new patterns for my shop on Spoonflower and I’m trying a new approach to create patterns – it’s making rubber stamps...

Craft book of Toshuka Shishu
Embroidery

Craft Book: Japanese Hand Embroidery “Totsuka Embroidery”

September 14, 2017 by Hitomi / 1 Comment

The other day I bought a book on hand embroidery. The craft book introduces embroidery works of “Tostuka Shishu (embroidery)“, which was established...

roostery blog
Media

Roostery Blog Feature

December 8, 2016 by Hitomi / 1 Comment

A couple of months ago, I got interviewed by Roostery and it was featured on their blog. Roostery is an unique home décor marketplace where you can select surfa...

Print

Studio Visit: Screenprinter PataPri

May 8, 2016 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

I visited my friend and textile/printing artist “PataPri”. Her studio is by the sea in Akiya, Yokosuka, Japan, and you could get all the great ocean...

MARI in Indigo x Ocean Blue
Pattern Design

Pattern Design File: MARI

January 11, 2016 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

    This MARI design was inspired by a shell but it also looks like a traditional Japanese ball TE-MARI so I named the pattern after it. Type: Surface...

Various types of shuttles for hand weaving
Weave

How to Make Inexpensive Weaving Spare Shuttles with Wire

January 11, 2016 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

When you weave using many colour yarns, you might want to prepare as many shuttles as your yarns. But shuttles are not very cheap. Then I found an easy way to m...

Various yarn wrappings
Knit/Weave

How to Make Yarn Wrappings for Woven Fabric Designing

December 29, 2015 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

When I weave or knit, the first thing I do is to make yarn wrappings. Because I love this process I usually forget about time and just keep making many of these...

Woven sample
Weave

Sample Weave: Plain Weave Checks

December 1, 2015 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

Here’s my sample weaving project with rigid heddle loom. I tried to do things systematically and first thing I did was selecting yarns and made several ya...

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