Participants try their hand at "sashiko" embroidery at a workshop in a Uniqlo outlet in Maebashi on Feb. 9, 2024. (Mainichi/Ryotaro Nishimoto) MAEBASHI -- A workshop to repair clothes using the ...

Amazing Sashiko: Modern Japanese Embroidery Designs Ayufish int. Tuttle, $17.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8048-5580-8 This largely successful English-language debut by the embroiderer known as ...

In 2020, my husband and I decided to take the biggest leap of our lives and move to Japan. We had no family or friends here, no job offers and no language skills. The only connection we had was that ...