New Sewing Classes will start in soon!

Hello Everyone, who is interested in learning how to sew! There will be two new courses: Saturdays (weekends) from 18:00 – 21:00 5 weeks short term course, ¥16.000 starting Saturday, August 27th and Monday evenings from 18:30 – 21:00 10 weeks course, ¥25.000 starting Monday, September 4th Please contact us, if you are interested to…

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DSTY Workshop: Cotton Zori

The old tradition to recycle cotton or kimono fabric and weave sandals for the house has been almost forgotten in Japan. For the kids workshop at the German School in Yokohama (DSTY) though, it seemed to be a perfect exercise to create something special by hand. The working process and the first results are shown…

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Batik and Dye

The new project at the DSTY was to dye and batik cotton pieces.   We will create T-shirts with this techniques too.

Creative Workshop for Kids – Day4-

Today was the 4th day of our creative workshop for kids at the German School in Yokohama (DSTY) The students developed a really nice sense in using the printing techniques individually! After the Tenogui from the start of the week we printed on messenger bags and made hair bands with a button.      …

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Creative Workshop for Kids

Creative Textile Crafts — this is what German and Japanese kids can learn from Monday 15th till Friday 26th at the DSTY, the German School Tokyo Yokohama! 7 Students, aged 8 till 13 are participating in my first textile workshop for kids and created today amazing prints works for  Tenugui  -a Japanese cotton towel. We will…

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Summer Sleeper

Tokyo temperatures are reaching 37 degrees during the day and even the nights don’t seem to cool down… Saving Japan’s electro energy and not using the aircondition means finding clever ideas for the little ones to feel comfortable as well in this heat. One great idea is this Summer Sleeper. Made of a double layer…

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Sleep well!

Hot summer nights are fun and comfortable with these colourful pyjamas! Shirt and pants are inspired from a kimono cut. The light fabric is called seersucker and is often used for summer bed sheets as well.

New Classes will start in September

Learn 10 basic sewing techniques and the use of a sewing machine. Beginner classes will start from September. There are 3 different course patterns available: 10 weeks course  (2,5 hours per session)  10 techniques + guidance through your own project (simple pants, bag, blouse…) for ¥25.000 Short term in 5 weeks (3 hours per session) 10 techniques…

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Baby Girl Blouses

These denim and cotton print blouses are really cute summer items for my 22-month old daughter. Smocked collar and sleeves and a wide hemline… …are comfortable for a walk in the grass… …and matches the bloomers perfectly. I used the same cut for the cotton print… smocked collar, elastic tape at the bottom arm-hole and…

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