A thread is woven to be a fabric. It will get old as time passes by, then torn or broken someday. SASHIKO originally invented for warmth and thrifty recycling, strengthening cloth. It was the era when cotton fabrics were far more valuable than now. Simple and well elaborated traditional patterns are old but new. Introducing SASHIKO to the world is my aim. "Japanesque combines with Western." That's my style.
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一本の糸が布になり、やがて古くなってほつれ破れる時が来ます。1枚の布が今よりずっと貴重だった時代に、補強と保温の目的で刺し子が施されました。シンプルなのによく考えられた文様は、今も古くて新しい。日本人の伝統文化を世界に紹介したい思いで取り組んでいます。
刺し子からSASHIKOへ…「和なのに洋」新しいSASHIKOの世界をごらんください。I N F O R M A T I O N
Mychiko method 展
「布とボロ」
1枚の布が今よりずっと貴重だった時代に生まれた「刺し子」は、リズミカルで自由。あちこちで見つけた古布に「刺し子」を施し、独自の命を吹き込むことに魅せられてしまった大庭美智子さんは、「継ぎ当てされた古布」のことを、愛情を込めて「ボロ」と呼びます。そんな彼女がこしらえた奔放でシックな作品が、organに届きます。
羽織る、
持ち歩く、
飾る。
是非見てほしいです。
2025年1月9日(木)–19日(日)
+ ECサイトを開設しました
+ https://mychiko.official.ec/
L' a r t i s a n
M y c h i k o
With the theme as "Modernize the tradition of ordinary people", I try to express Japan beyond Japanese patterns and create fine works of the original design by hands, with keeping the MOTTAINAI spirit, making materials revive until the last minute.
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「昔から伝わる庶民の伝統をモダンに！」
日本的なデザインを超えた先にある日本を表現しながら、材料を大切に生かす刺し子の精神を忘れず、
丁寧な手仕事とオリジナルデザインに取り組んでいます。
- S A S H I K O
＋ 文 様
M O N - Y O P A T T E R N S
Patterns look simple but once you draw them, you will find how surprisingly well elaborated they are.
Almost of all is designed something very familiar in their daily life based on plants, the nature, tools, auspicious motifs, family crests, Chinese characters, and so on.
With wishes for universal and eternal luck.シンプルなのによく考えられた文様は今も古くて新しい。
植物、自然、道具、吉兆、家紋、文字など、日常生活の身近なものが図案化されています。
ほとんどが普遍と永遠を願うもの。
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A I・I N D I G O
Ai, Indigo（Persicaria tinctoria） is annual plants, which has been attached much value to dye in blue in the world since B.C.
In Japan, indigo dye started in Nara era and now it's called as "Japan Blue" and/or "Hiroshige Blue" overseas.
It is also known its efficacies for pesticide, detoxification, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and so on.タデ科イヌタデ属の一年生植物で別名は蓼藍。
紀元前より世界各地で青色の染料として重用されていました。
藍染めは奈良時代から続く歴史があり、海外では"Japan blue"または"Hiroshige Blue"と呼ばれることもあります。
防虫、解毒、解熱、消炎など薬草としての効能も知られています。 
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B O R O
Originally, Boro means worn-out cloths in Japanese.
The days when cotton was rare, people cherished cotton cloth by patchwork or doing sashiko even it got ragged.
I designed BORO series using scraps as far as possible in order to express the atmosphere as if the time has passed.
New BORO evolves, combined with leathers for example, to stateless modern.
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G u r u G u r u
We call the spiral shape GURUGURU in onomatopoeia even we have a word UZUMAKI.
GURUGURU is the series of squeezed spirals to aim three-dimensional effects.
This is so much interesting technique which you can find various wrinkles, with different conditions of pulling threads and cloths' thickness.
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Vertical + horizontal
This is the series stitching vertically and horizontally.
In order to reinforce old or thin cloths, all you need is only patience.
The more you stitches, the better the charm talks.
