Japanese style

Haori is a type of traditional Japanese clothing, some kind of a jacket or a coat. Both men and women wear haori. Traditional haori is T-shaped, female haori can have slightly rounded sleeves. Straight lines and angles in the Japanese tradition are a symbol of power. Haori length can be different, ...

Desktop mini dresser is very convenient. It is great to store small things, materials for craftswork in such a dresser, because all the boxes are small. In terms of decor, such a piece of furniture can be a great part of the interior. For example, my customer wanted to add a touch of the East. The ...

Japan has produced many types of art (discussed in part one), I got interested by kinysayga technique. The imagination of Japanese craftspeople has no boundaries of one type of handicraft, so materials of one handicraft also become materials for another. Japanese handicraft kinysayga — silk pictures ...

Japan is an amazing country with its culture, customs and mentality. Japanese culture intertwines ancient traditions, new technologies, fashion trends from Europe. For two hundred years, Japan had been isolated from the outside world, which helped it to preserve its identity. Interest in Japanese ...

I want to share with you perfect brooches with ethnic motifs by the Japanese Tilia Embroidery Studio. Their collection includes swans, penguins, cats, polar bears, peacocks, Indian elephants. They use decorative stitches, Japanese beads, sequins, Swarovski rhinestones, twisted gold thread and ...

Who do we love more than cats? That's right, owls! Especially if they are embroidered with soft and juicy floss. This simple formula of success has been discovered by Japanese needlewoman Kumasanmania and has created a wonderful series of embroidered purses. The main roles were given to ...

I want to get you acquainted with works of an amazing craftswoman from Kyoto. There's very little information about her, all is in Japanese, even Google translate can't always be friends with the texts :) Here's what I've found out: the items are introduced by the Nijiiro Factory ...

I want to share photos of Mori Girls. Mori kei is a Japanese style of clothing. Mori in Japanese means 'forest'. This is probably why such clothes tends to natural colours, old-fashioned silhouettes. An outfit may be deliberately childish, teen (baby doll dresses, leather shoes) or quite ...

Murakami Yutaka — a gorgeous Japanese watercolourist working in the wet-on-wet technique, one of the most difficult when working with watercolours. The artist has a lot of highly-artistic works, but today we will focus on what brought him the worldwide popularity: cats. Playful, active, cocky, sweet ...