Kuguri-zashi Sashiko Pattern Book | 6 Woven Japanese Embroidery Designs (PDF Download)

Simply download the file, print the pages onto water-soluble staple paper, cut out the designs, and attach them to your fabric to start embroidering right away. This book features traditional Japanese sashiko embroidery patterns. It explains the meaning and background of each pattern, and provides illustrated instructions for sewing them. ✦ Sashiko Patterns: Kuguri-zashi Edition ✦ A Visual Library of 6 Traditional Japanese Designs A 19-page PDF pattern book devoted entirely to Kuguri-zashi — the "woven" sashiko technique where a second thread is laced through a base of running stitches without piercing the fabric, creating a richly textured, almost three-dimensional surface. Designed in Japan with care, this book brings together cultural notes, step-by-step photographic tutorials, and ready-to-print templates, all in one elegantly typeset document. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ WHAT MAKES KUGURI-ZASHI SPECIAL Unlike standard Sashiko, Kuguri-zashi is a two-step technique: 1. First, you stitch a base grid (jizashi) using a running stitch 2. Then, you weave a second thread under those stitches without piercing the fabric — creating a layered, woven look impossible with single-thread embroidery The result is a thick, decorative texture that elevates everyday cloth into something quietly luxurious. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ WHAT'S INSIDE (19 pages) - The Basics of Kuguri-zashi (2 pages) Tools, base stitches, and the weaving thread — the two-step technique illustrated with full-color photographs of each step - Pattern Guide & Stitching Order (3 pages) Step-by-step diagrams showing the base grid and the weaving direction for each of the six motifs, plus their cultural meaning - Full Pattern Collection (12 pages) Print-ready A4 templates for tracing onto your fabric — the complete set of six designs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ THE 6 PATTERNS 01. Nami (Waves) — a beginner-friendly entry point into the technique 02. A Series of Mountains — flowing peaks evoking distant ranges 03. Kikkō-kuguri (Tortoise Shell Weave) — longevity & strong bonds 04. Jūji-kuguri (Linked Cross Weave) — protection, harmony, completion 05. Ajisai-zashi (Hydrangea Stitch) — clustered floral elegance 06. Plus an additional traditional motif Each pattern is paired with stitching-order diagrams in Chapter 1 and print-ready templates in the final section. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ FILE DETAILS - Format: PDF (high-resolution, A4 portrait) - Pages: 19 - Language: English - Files: 1 instant download ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ PERFECT FOR ♡ Stitchers ready to move beyond basic Sashiko into a richer technique ♡ Anyone who loves textural, three-dimensional hand embroidery ♡ Slow stitching, mindful crafting, and visible mending ♡ Quilters, fiber artists, and textile lovers ♡ A thoughtful gift for someone who loves Japanese craft ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ IMPORTANT NOTES - This is a DIGITAL PRODUCT — no physical item will be shipped - Files are delivered automatically via instant download - For personal use and small-scale handmade projects only - Please do not resell, redistribute, or share the files - You're welcome to sell finished handmade items made with these patterns ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ ABOUT THE SERIES This is the second volume of MA NO CRAFT's Sashiko Patterns library: → Volume One: Hitomezashi Edition (12 patterns, 31 pages) The "one-stitch" style — geometric patterns built from straight running stitches → Volume Two: Kuguri-zashi Edition (6 patterns, 19 pages) — this book The "woven" style — layered, three-dimensional textures Each volume stands alone, but they're designed as companions for stitchers building a complete Sashiko practice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ ABOUT MA NO CRAFT Handcraft from Japan. We create thoughtfully designed pattern books and guides that bring traditional Japanese stitching techniques to home stitchers around the world. Thank you for supporting independent makers ♡