Toridasuki Sashiko Pattern PDF | Stick and Stitch, Visible Mending | Crossed Cord Lattice | Water Soluble Printable | Instant Download

✦ Toridasuki (Crossed Cord Lattice): Japanese Sashiko Pattern ✦

A printable, true-scale PDF for two crossing families of wavy running-stitch lines, meeting at every crossing point.

Tori-dasuki traces to Nara-period court textiles: long-tailed birds, once holding a ceremonial ribbon, linked in a crossing lattice on ceremonial Heian silk. Tasuki names the diagonal crisscross itself, the same word used for the everyday sash tied back to free the sleeves for work, borrowed here for the geometry, not a cord the birds are shown wearing. This version keeps the lattice, worked in two crossing passes.

WHAT YOU GET (instant download):

• Cover with difficulty + motif overview

• Full-page stitching template at true 1:1 scale, with a two-pass stitch-path guide

• Step-by-step marking, stitching & finishing guide

• Clean transfer template for water-soluble stabilizer

• US Letter AND A4 versions

DETAILS:

• Skill level: Beginner, one continuous curved running stitch, two easy passes

• Time: approx. 1 to 3 hrs for a 10x10 in piece

• Thread: approx. 11 m for a 10x10 in piece (buy a little extra)

• You'll need: cotton or linen, sashiko thread, a long needle, a removable marker or water-soluble stabilizer for dark fabric

HOW IT WORKS:

• Print at 100% and check the 1-inch square

• On light fabric, trace at a window or lightbox; on dark fabric, use water-soluble stabilizer

• Stitch the horizontal wavy rows first, left to right, then the vertical wavy columns, top to bottom; the two families cross at shared points, let the stitches meet, do not double them

For personal use only; please don't resell or redistribute. Digital download, nothing is shipped.

You'll get 2 files: one for US Letter, one for A4.

Tanuki Studio