naniIRO textile 2016 vol.2

A piece that delivers happiness in a quiet manner. Any part of the fabric has such presence like a piece of abstract painting.

Following the feature from last week, it is naniIRO special vol. 2. Two designs, KOMOREBI/// and Five senses are introduced.

KOMOREBI /// JG10350 Double Gauze (Cotton 100%)
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Komorebi, the light filtering through the trees, is like a wind in rainbow color. Or could it be a breeze that delivers an aroma?
It creates a comfort that takes you back to that day down the memory lane.
The light is dancing and the flowers are starting to sing merrily.
It is a piece that brings you such gentle and quiet happiness.

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Sas and Yosh(artists/illustrators)

A joyful textile collection from a powerful design duo

This spring we feature Sas and Yosh Textile in our textile story column. These textiles are created by Sarah Bellisario and Yoshie Allan, a collaborative design team.
‘Sas and Yosh’ started their brand from 2014. Since then, they have created a wide range of items such as textiles, stationery and wallpapers which make our life cheerful and colorful.
The energetic duo just like their creation talk about their product story and daily life.
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Kokka-fabric.com (KF): How did you get to know each other?

In 2011, Yosh moved to Hitchin from Japan with her British husband and their son. After their daughter was born, she started her career as an illustrator in the UK. A little while after Yosh’s son started his primary school, Sas and Yosh’s mutual friend introduced them as Sas was also illustrator and a mum of daughter at another primary school. Who imagined Sas and Yosh would be born so soon after we first met!

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Sparkling Star Square Bag made of machine pieced patchwork 

Size: 21cm (l) x 21cm (w) x 7cm (d)   

Continued from the last project, along with Five Star Bag made of machine pieced patchwork, another machine pieced patchwork bag, Sparkling Star Square Bag is featured. This time, it is a mini shoulder bag. The remnants of colorful Irome clearly stand out against a subdued solid blue tone of echino. The star patchwork center is created by piecing together triangle square blocks. The bottom gusset looks cheerful by sewing together the remnants of Irome. On the second sheet of the sewing instructions, a detailed process of machine pieced patchwork is described. Why not challenge yourself with this new project?

Design & work:Amy Morinaka


Fabric shown for this sample:
 Kokka echino solid, Kokka Irome


Materials:
□ Fabric (Blue solid): 110cm wide x 50cm
□ Pre-cut patchwork fabric about 12 different designs
□ Quilt batting: 100cm× 40cm
□ Fusible interfacing: 15cm x 25cm
□ Zipper: 25cm x 1
□ D Ring: 1cm wide – Two pieces
□ Strap: One commercially available strap with two swivel hooks

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Click here for Sewing Instructions (PDF format / A4 size)
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naniIRO textile 2016 vol.1

A poetic world created by Naomi Ito

The April textile story is a special issue featuring naniIRO.
Started in 2002, naniIRO textile is a brand that incorporates Naomi Ito’s water color painting into fabrics. The brand’s name nani means beautiful in Hawaiian and IRO represents the meaning of color and harmony. A poetic gradation and bright coloration that take in the shades of light and water, gradual line and beautiful composition as a main piece…these elements turned the fabric into a painting and made this brand a Japanese pioneer of print fabrics featuring an artist. In the last 15 years of its history, 127 designs with 699 colors were created.

Lei nani – For beautiful corolla JG10310(Double Gauze Cotton 100%)、JG10311 (Linen 100%)
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From the beginning to the end, I drew these designs thinking that these flowers will be given as corolla and leis. For this reason, it is named Lei nani, a beautiful flower corolla in Hawaiian, with a hope that it is given to someone like a beautiful handmade crown of flowers.

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Five Star Bag made of machine pieced patchwork

Size: 17.5cm (l) x 22.5cm (w) x 7.5cm (d)

The fun of making a patchwork is to come up with fabric and design combinations. The featured project is a bag made of machine pieced patchwork. Irome, a series of fabrics that were first introduced for patchwork and quilting, is used for the piece work. For the outer fabric, feel free to choose any solid color you like such as white or pink, depending on the color and patterns of the patchwork pieces.

Design & Work:Kokka Fabric


Fabric shown for this sample:
 Irome


Materials:
□ Fabric:
(Outer fabric) Solid (pink) 110cm wide × 80cm
Pre-cut patchwork fabric about 12 different designs
(Backing fabric) Solid 110cm wide x 30cm
□ Quilt batting 100cm× 30cm
□ Fusible interfacing (light thickness): 100cm x 25cm
□ Zipper 30cm x 1
□ Waxed cord 15cm (for zipper decoration)
□ Polyfill: small amount

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Click here for Sewing Instructions (PDF format / A4 size)
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