Linen Embroidered Coasters

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Available from Woodland Mod when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Artist Shion Sugawara held her first solo exhibition in Tokyo this March. She's one of the youngest artists featured in this catalog. I first became acquainted with Sugawara late last year when Ikumi Kato, a discerning editor who regularly monitors the work of artists in the Suginami area, mentioned to me that she'd met a rather interesting artist. She embroiders people and animals using a straight-stitch sewing machine, each with their own unique facial expressions, sometimes grumpy and sometim