Misa Jo the founder of Saori weaving says " weave every day" annually I like to challenge my self to do just that ! I wove a yard a day for 30 days. I started on Jan 10, and finished on Feb 11th. I finished the full 30 yards but could not stand to have that last yard left on the loom so on day 31 I wove off the last yard. so 31 yards in 31 days! Day one I started weaving my ( go here to see more on this warp ) indigo natural dyed warp past blog info click here hand dyed indigo warp I loved…

Images via Koron007 Centuries ago, fabric was a rare and precious commodity only the wealthy could afford. So people treasured old and worn-out pieces of clothing to recycle and reuse in order to make new clothes. Thus the sakiori was born. Sakiori comes from the word "saki" which means to tear up or rip and "ori" which means weave. Recycling old fabric remnants into sakiori weavings follows the Japanese indispensable concept of “mottainai” or not wasting precious cloth that can prolong the…

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Kaz Madigan shares her unique relationship to the Japanese Saori weaving workshop, which values the human touch as part of Zen Buddhism

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Welcome Dawn to Saori Santa Cruz designing and sewing clothing class! Lets look at how this progression class went from hand woven cloth to jacket Here is Dawn's happy hand woven fabric she wove Saori style and brought to class in her luggage from Canada . I had the studio all ready for cutting and sewing and trying on…. Dozens of muslins to try and finished garments as well for ideas….. Dawn confess that in her soaking stage of her finished cloth she some how felted part of it . …. you can…

This fall I went on a sewing binge and created 4 new garments out of my SAORI HAND WOVEN YARDAGE. Many tell me they are to frightened to cut into there saori, or any handwoven yardage. I understanbd that but i have been sewing and designing since i was 10 years old. i have messed up on expensive fabrics and then had to com eup up ways to to create a usuable gartment from my intial mistakes, which 100% of the time turned out to be so much better then the original intent! To become unique and…

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