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Designer Edge with Miyuki Sakai

While experimenting at art collage in Kyoto, Japan, Miyuki Sakai switched brushes for a sewing machine and paints for thread. Now, with close to 30 years’ experience and about 150 colours of thread at hand, the San Francisco-based artist has created ‘illustrations’ of everything from supermarket products to dressing-table accoutrement, all with free-motion machine stitching. […]