Where coast and craft lines meet.
About Parallel Threads
Parallel Threads is a space for sharing sashiko with respect and care — honoring its deep roots in Japan while nurturing connection across the Pacific Northwest. What began as a personal journey of learning has grown into a bridge: between traditions and new hands, between cultures, and between stories carried in every stitch.
Learn & Stitch Together
Whether you’re picking up a needle for the first time or deepening your practice, these courses offer thoughtful, hands-on learning rooted in Sashiko’s cultural traditions. Each class is guided with humility, care, and a spirit of connection.
Threads of Connection
Sashiko is not only a practice, but a conversation — between people, places, and generations. Our journal gathers those voices: artisans in Japan, students beginning their first stitches, and reflections on what it means to learn with respect. Each story adds to the fabric of connection that Parallel Threads is built on.
What anchors us?
What carries us across?
Where do our paths lead?
Our Guiding Threads
Cultural Respect
Respect means approaching sashiko as more than technique — it is philosophy and heritage. We acknowledge the Japanese teachers and artisans who carry this tradition forward, and we work to share it with humility and gratitude.
Connection
Connection means honoring the threads that run between Japan and the Pacific Northwest — weaving together place, culture, and people with respect and reciprocity.
Intentional Creativity
We see creativity not as decoration, but as a practice of care — each stitch a choice, each design a conversation with tradition.
Lifelong Learning
Learning is never finished. We remain students of sashiko, guided by the voices of teachers and artisans who carry this tradition. Our role is to listen deeply, grow with humility, and share what we are learning along the way.
