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Nanna’s Sashiko Japanese Textile Workshops, offered as part of the OISHII-exhibition extracurricula-activities in spring 2017 at the Linden Museum Stuttgart, booked out quickly. This stitching course, without the direct museum-affiliation, is a more in-depth sashiko workshop. In addition to sashiko patterns, Japanese boro textile pieces (photo on the right) are discussed. Underlying meanings of seemingly ordinary patterns are explained and their use is conveyed. Participants will be given a theoretical background on which they base their practical exercises.

In boro the focus lies on minimalist aethetics and traces of old age. An ornament or pattern is not recognizable. In rural Japan hand-mended patchwork cotton-cloths and blankets existed starting the early 19th century. Before WWII the lack of materials forced the country-folk to create from scraps. Life was dictated by „mottainai“, which means „Discard nothing“!

Please bring (if available): Small fabric scissors, medium-heavy white/blue cotton fabric. Various darning and embroidery threads in the colors blue and white.