Inspired by the often erratic and eccentric stitching found in some Japanese Boro pieces. Made from shot cottons and ikats.

This quilt is hand embroidered using the traditional Japanese sashiko running stitch. It is made from recycled fabric samples of denim, silk, linen, and cotton. It measures 60 by 76 inches and is hand tied.

Join me on the blog to see a tiny, slow stitiching, boro style patchwork project and be inspired by the beautiful Japanese fabrics and indigo colour palette | clothcurioscoolthings.com

In today’s fashion, this traditional mending technique is being used as a style statement.

Seeing as the 2 pieces shown in this post are called "Boro Blues" and "Boro Blues #2", let me start off by singing my own blues to you, over...

In yesterday’s post, I described 3 different traditional crafts that share one common thread, the running stitch : Kantha, Boro and Sashiko. Kantha and Boro are traditional patchwork from Ind…

Boro in the Japanese language means “rags” or “fabric remnants”, and Boro as an artform means the repurposing or recycling of old fabric, mending, sewing and quilting, …

I love boro stitching. I love the feel of pulling thread through cloth. I love the 'rule-less-ness' of it, and the minimalism of it. I love picking bits of cloth for their colours and textures and then stitching them together until I have a new big piece of fabric. Scrap fabrics, a needle, some thread, that's it.