About Me¶
Hi, I`m Yuki from Fablab Hamamatsu, Japan. Welcome to my fabricademy web page!!
・Working with my ecuadorian friends to make embroidery products. ・In charge of using the embroidery machine and doing some activities to introduce the embroidery designed with the programming techniques at Fablab.
Besides Fablab's activities, Working for the foreign people linving in/arond my city in order that they and we Japanese who have been there since long long time would be able to live.
To "Make" something is that there is always something we can understand or connect with, regardless of people's backgrounds or cultures so that we have been bulding the worldwide connections like Fablab network. I'm thinking that we will be able to share each other through the Fablab activities.
- Interested in Machine/Hand embroidery.
- Support to run Fablab Hamamatsu/Take-Space.
- Love to collect the embroidery and weaving products all over world especially clothes in latinamerica.
- Interview project about the embroidery designs in Ecuador
- Recentlly contibute to introduce the Scratch embroidery.
- In the future, want to release my new project with Ecuadorian people
- Mama for 3 kids.
My background¶
-Born and grew up in the central Japan but local area surrounded by nature.
-Majored in Spanish and the Latinamerican studies.
-During the university era, stayed in Ecuador for more deeply study. There met the embroidey technique and people who making own clothes.
After graduating from the university, I have been working in my local area in Japan, doing the following tasks:
Overseeing the acceptance and management of trainees and technical interns mainly from Asian countries
Visiting foreign schools, Providing life and career consultations for Latin American Nikkei people etc.
Also engaging with various textile cultures such as: embroidery, weaving, and dyeing from different countries.
At the same time, I have continued to keep in touch with the friends whom I met in Ecuador and have conducted interviews regarding Ecuadorian embroidery designs.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and after the birth of my third child, while being busy with parenting, I had a strong desire to create something with my hands.
That's when I started a project with a professional embroidery machine as my partner. My friends in Ecuador would send me design data they had drawn, and I would use the embroidery machine to produce and create products from those designs. That's digital fabrication!
Why Fabricademy?¶
Through the Fabricademy program, I would like to discover new ways to contribute to the preservation, inheritance, and development of various ethnic (traditional) cultures around the world, not just in Ecuador.
I want to create products in a way that the producers are identifiable, and to value knowing to whom the products are being delivered.
Currently, I am planning a project in a city near my home that is known for its tea production. Repurpose old bags that were once used for harvesting tea leaves with machines, instead of discarding them, and create works that capture the beautiful tea field scenery and memories related to tea picking.
Additionally, I have just started the Ecuador embroidery project, and I am eager to collaborate with the local young people who are actively working to develop their own culture. In the textile industry, addressing environmental issues has become essential. Therefore, I want to leverage the unique environmental conditions of each location and learn new methods through Fabricademy. Furthermore, I would like to conduct a Fabricademy Bootcamp in Japan!
Projects¶
My Fablab is located neat the ocean and surrounded by the huge nature such as mauntains and rice fields. We have not only the digital fabrication machinary but also tradicional analog tools such as .
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Ecuadorin embroidery design interview
During the period when I couldn't travel due to parenting, work, and the COVID-19 pandemic, I conducted interviews online about embroidery designs: Topics included the choice of motifs, the reasons behind specific designs, and the symbolism of thread colors.Interviewing individuals who have experience with embroidery, not limited to those who make it their profession, primarily involved selecting embroidered blouses with personal memories. This included interviewing women who have stitched their own pieces and even speaking with men who engage in embroidery. From each individual's immediate surroundings to things encountered during travels, I was able to learn about the origins of various motifs.
Additionally, I discovered a wide range of designs from elderly individuals to younger generations, from traditional to modern which underscored the uniqueness of each creation.
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Open atlier lab activity for tea leaves art event
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Scratch embroidery -code to ito-
Two Japanese university professors developed a method to create embroidery data using the block-based visual programming language "Scratch" as one technique of machine embroidery.
Finding it very interesting, I have been creating and exhibiting works with the professor's approval and engaging in collective activities such as conducting workshops to promote this method.
- Research trip with embroidet machine
Introducing Scratch embroidery internationally at Fab conference hands on workshops.
Traveling domestically and internationally with my children to learn about traditional clothing and textiles.
Previous work¶
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Charry cafe project.
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Scrach embroidery workshop and cobductive thread at: Maker Faire, Fab conference, local art center.
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Cloud funding for Mexican artesanal area
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Lectures for juniour and university students
Assignments¶
Assignments is here.