enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sashiko - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashiko

    Common sashiko motifs are waves, mountains, bamboo, arrow feathers, shippō-tsunagi, pampas grass and interlocking geometric shapes, amongst others. [4] Sashiko embroidery is traditionally applied with the use of specialist needles and thread, though modern day sashiko may use modern embroidery threads and embroidery needles.

  3. Vietnamese embroidery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_embroidery

    Vietnamese hand embroidery is a traditional craft dating back 700 years. [ citation needed ] Usually, tiny threads are used to create brightly coloured pictures on cloth. It is a popular extracurricular activity for young girls in high school.

  4. Kogin-zashi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogin-zashi

    Various items in Aomori Prefecture featuring kogin-zashi patterns. Kogin-zashi (こぎん刺し) is one of the techniques of sashiko, or traditional Japanese decorative reinforcement stitching, that originated in the part of present-day Aomori Prefecture controlled by the Tsugaru clan during the Edo period (1603-1867).

  5. Sashiko stitching - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/?title=Sashiko_stitching&...

    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Sashiko stitching

  6. List of Vietnamese artists - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_artists

    This is a list of artists who were born in the Vietnam or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.. Artists are listed by field of study and then by family name in alphabetical order (review Vietnamese naming customs as the family name will display in the first name field, with exceptions including people of the diaspora), and they may be listed more than once on the list if ...

  7. File:Sashiko by volunteers, 2012 - Textile Museum of Canada ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sashiko_by_volunteers...

    This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

  8. Sichuan embroidery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan_embroidery

    Sichuan embroidery is one of the so-called "four great embroideries of China" along with Cantonese embroidery, Suzhou embroidery and Xiang embroidery.Throughout its history, Sichuan embroidery developed a quality of being smooth, bright, neat, and influenced by its own geographical environment, various customs and cultures, with significant foreign influences being Sasanian, Sogdian and ...

  9. Hòn non bộ - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hòn_Non_Bộ

    The phrase Hòn non bộ comes from the Vietnamese language: Hòn (𡉕) means islands, non (𡽫) means mountains, and bộ 部 means a set, in this context, the islands and the mountains are one set. Hòn non bộ may be quite large and elaborate or small and simple. It was used to grace the courtyard entrance of the traditional Vietnamese home.