Welcome to Affordable Kind Craft
At Affordable Kind Craft we offer a small hand selected range of high quality fabrics, DIY embroidery kits, quality embroidery threads and accessories. Our ambition is to make your hobby an affordable activity.
Our aim is to provide you with well priced products and a lovely chat. What you see on this site is what we have in stock. We always try to pack and send deliveries out the next day.
A little Sashiko history
Sashiko is a Japanese folk-art that originated in Japan’s rural north sometime during the Edo period (1615–1868). Having evolved over centuries from an economic necessity, we now appreciate the Little-Stabs as a decorative and attractive art.
The word Sashiko literally means ’Little-Stabs’. It refers to the stitching in repeating or interlocking pattern of one or more layers of cloth with a simple running stitch.
In comparison
Indigo dyeing and what is being dyed?
NATURAL DYES AND THE ORGANIC INDIGO VAT
Indigo dyeing is a vat dyeing process. To get the dye onto the yarn or the fabric, it is dissolved in water with the help of a reducing agent. Once the yarn or fabric is taken out of the dyeing vat and gets in contact with the atmospheric oxygen, the oxidation process binds the color molecules to the fibers of the yarn during which color of yarn or
Indigo Hand Dyed Fabrics, Care Tips and Handling
Indigo Hand Dyed Fabrics, Care Tips and Handling
Natural indigo hand dyed fabrics will not shrink like machine dyed fabric because it has already gone through water during the dyeing process, so the length won’t change while washing.
No Chemicals are used in dyeing process.
Apart from variation of color in displays (picture taking, computer screen, phone screen etc), Hand dyed fabric has slight color variation
Indigo and Sashiko
The word “Indigo” in Japanese evokes special feelings – of both fondness and nostalgia – among many Japanese people.
Indigo is actually the name of a plant. First introduced to Japan from ancient Egypt via China at around the 3rd century A.D., it has been cultivated as a source of dye since then. Cotton dyed in indigo is strong, warm in winter, cool in summer and rarely moth-eaten. Cotton
