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Epson Design Paper

January 31, 2020 by Hitomi / 1 Comment
Epson Design Paper by Hitomi Kimura

If you are using an Epson printer, you can now print two of my pattern designs for free! https://support.epson.net/fun/articles/114?LG2=en The “Epson Creative Print” service provides you with easy access to printing numbers of pattern designs…

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Pattern Design

Surface Pattern for Book Cover Design

October 21, 2019 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
Pattern for book cover

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

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Printmaking

Block Printing Illustration

August 17, 2018 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
wood-block printing

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 carve the details…!

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Sketchbook

Cats Drawing

August 16, 2018 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
drawing of cats on sketchbook

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 frustrating at the same time because I found…

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Embroidery

Embroidered Covered Buttons

May 20, 2018 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
embroidery 刺繍

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 with the technique has a lot more restriction…

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Print

Block Printing and New Pattern Design

September 17, 2017 by Hitomi / 3 Comments
pattern design

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. It’s a very analogue way to experiment (maybe most of design…

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Embroidery

Craft Book: Japanese Hand Embroidery “Totsuka Embroidery”

September 14, 2017 by Hitomi / 1 Comment
Craft book of Toshuka Shishu

The other day I bought a book on hand embroidery. The craft book introduces embroidery works of “Tostuka Shishu (embroidery)“, which was established by Kiku Totsuka in 1950s. The technique used in this book is…

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Media

Roostery Blog Feature

December 8, 2016 by Hitomi / 1 Comment
roostery blog

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 surface designs and create your own housewares….

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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 view from the room she works at. I regretted…

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Pattern Design

Pattern Design File: MARI

January 11, 2016 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
MARI in Indigo x Ocean Blue

    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 pattern design Design: MARI Technique: Paper…

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Weave

How to Make Inexpensive Weaving Spare Shuttles with Wire

January 11, 2016 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
Various types of shuttles for hand weaving

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 make spare ones with…

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Knit/Weave

How to Make Yarn Wrappings for Woven Fabric Designing

December 29, 2015 by Hitomi / 0 Comment
Various yarn wrappings

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. Yarn wrapping is…

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