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Sashiko? Kogin? Hitomezashi? Boro? What are we stitching?
By Susan Fletcher
Which one are you stitching?
Sashiko? Kogin? Hitomezashi? Boro?
What all 4 techniques have in common, and how they differ...

How to boro stitch a patch
By Susan Fletcher
If you have been reading my Boro stitching bog posts, by now you may be want to try it out....


How do you know it's Japanese Boro?
By Susan Fletcher
Although Boro is the Japanese name for a type of mending, stitching, reinforcing and extending the life of used fabric, every culture has this practice in it's history. Before cloth was mass produced

Boro Group on Facebook
By Susan Fletcher
Boro stitching is a type of sashiko stitching. I was just thinking about the Boro Facebook Group I belong to and what an inspiration they are...

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