A pack of 3 plain coloured Hanafukin sashiko fabrics ready for you to mark up with your own sashiko designs. These fabrics are the same Sarashi as the Olympus sashiko samplers and kits so will combine beautifully in your projects.
This pack includes - Indigo blue, mid-blue, pale blue fabric
Each piece of fabric is 33cm x 70cm and 100% cotton.
Please note this listing is for the fabric only. The fabric pack includes 3 sashiko designs and some illustrated (Japanese) instructions.
The History of Sashiko
Sashiko originated about 400 years ago and was a way of making clothes warmers and also preserving them. By putting two or more layers of cloth together and sewing with a running stitch, it creates small pockets of air in the clothing, which trap warmth. Beautiful, geometric patterns were stitched in undyed thread to create the classic 'cream on blue' look which we associate with sashiko today. But as well as being beautiful, this was also very practical as women would often stitch sashiko on dark evenings and the contrast meant they could see what they were doing! Dense stitching helped preserve the fabric for generations to come, as well as providing a means of repairing it with patches.
