Art by hand: hand-embroidered bookmarks by 木凜 kirin 03.10.2018 – Posted in: News
Many of my friends know about my lifelong passion for knitting, sewing, weaving and other textile crafts. This summer, I had a chance to travel to Estonia to study their traditional crafting methods and experiment with materials and techniques such as silver and tablet looms. During my visit, I met an outstanding Japanese artist-artisan-crafter 木凜 kirin aka Hikari Tanaka who makes – among other things – beautiful, hand-embroidered bookmarks. She uses used, cotton flannel coffee filters and embroiders them…
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