Workshop on hand-sewing

I attended a workshop on hand-sewing face masks embroidered with Ainu patterns. (Ainu are the indigenous people who live in the north of the country. They once lived in the Sakhalin and Kurile Islands, but they were forcibly incorporated into Japan. Now,  we Japanese are working to revive and maintain tant be respectful of the Ainu people's culture. )

In the past, women would pass the time chatting while sewing and embroidering simple geometric patterns of symmetry. I believe that hand sewing is a common thread in every human culture to make cloth strong, to make it as fashionable as possible, and to keep bad things away all the time.

Love for women! Love for hand sewing!