Yoshimi ARIMOTO told us about Yuza sashiko ca.20 years ago. NHK TV interview.Chie Ikeda has learned the basic Yuza sashiko patterns from Yoshimi Arimoto. Mrs. Arimoto says that Yuza sashiko is to stitch without line. The basic Shonai sashiko patterns was arranged by Tojiyo Takahashi & Chieko Hori including Kogin patterns, Nagai sashiko patterns, Yuza sashiko patterns.
The video streaming isn't very good on my internet connection - let me know if it runs smoothly for you.
EDIT - Izumi has added some more information about the sashiko patterns to the YouTube description and comments section. The 'Nagai' patterns are from Nagai District, Yamagata Prefecture ('nagai' is a word for 'long' in Japanese, so I thought she was writing about long patterns!) Hanabishizashi (flower diamond stitch) is one of them. She sent a photo of Chie Ikeda's sashiko waistcoat (modern style) from 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook' to illustrate this - the flower shaped pattern is hanabishizashi (shown by the paper arrow, centre page) and the other labelled one is also from Nagai.
Izumi is the historian of Yuza and Shonai sashiko patterns and wrote the history sections in the sashiko books published by Yuza Sashiko Group.
2 comments:
It doesn't run too smoothly here - it keeps stopping to download another minute or two. I find the answer is to start it up (with the sound off), go away and do something else while it does its thing, then come back once it's finished; switch the sound back on, press "replay" and it'll run from start to finish using its completely downloaded version. Good sashiko clip, though, isn't it?
Yes, at least it keeps pausing on interesting bits of sashiko! I must listen to it several times through although I am tempted to ask Izumi to send me a transcript that we could translate too...
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