Sashiko Mending and Repairing

Sashiko Mending and Repairing

Summer Youth | Available

286 Whisconier Rd Brookfield, CT 06804 United States
Weaving Studio
Ages 11 - 17
Monday, July 21, 2025-Friday, July 25, 2025
1:00 PM-4:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri
$279.00
$275.00

Sashiko Mending and Repairing

Summer Youth | Available

Students will learn a different style of sashiko stitching each day and have a beautiful sampler at the end of the week and learn to apply their stitches to mend or repair personal clothing. Fiber artist Ryan Scails will start each student off honing their fine motor skills and then build up to make bigger aesthetic changes through the addition of color. 

Sashiko has its origins as a Japanese Quilting and Embroidery practice. With a simple running stitch, it creates bold, geometric patterns on textiles.


**Students please bring in torn jeans, shirts, dresses anything that needs mending or repairing**

Scails, Ryan
Ryan Scails

Ryan Scails is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the nuances of materiality
within the built world and how intentional shifts in details can give humans context in
ways that confront the limits of their bodies. By using fiber to create hyper specific
structural relationships, his work highlights the potential in substantive engagements
between the human body and our environment. In a manner that leans heavily on the
sequential harmony of physical labor his work seeks to foreground pre-colonial
technologies by riffing on fractured schematics, glyphs, and vernacular tools to sift
through the imperial aggregate. His most recent exhibitions include RAW at Eric
Firestone Gallery (New York City, NY), To Prepare A Place For You at Temple
Contemporary (Philadelphia, PA), Martin's End at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia,
PA), Graphite Stew at Upper Market Gallery (San Francisco, CA). Ryan has attended
residencies at MASSMoCA, Textile Arts Center - Brooklyn, and the John Michael Kohler
Arts Center Arts/Industry program.