The calendar 2025: Pulled Thread by Masaki Komoti is on display in our shop window from 17 - 31 January 2025.

Calendar 2025: Pulled Thread takes its name from the eponymously titled process in which fabric threads are pulled tightly to form distinct designs. In the window exhibition you can find the orginal copy of the hand embroidered object that Masaki made as a blue print for the printed calendar.

The printed calendar is still available in our webshop and store on Sint Jansstraat 51, Amsterdam

Featuring various pulled fabric stitches such as the four-sided stitch and diagonal cross filling stitch, the calendar utilizes the technique of pulling threads in regular stitch counts and orientation in order to create negative spaces that give a lacey appearance to the fabric.

The typography used for the calendar is based on lettering typically featured in classical cross stitch embroidery. Stitched entirely in French knot, the typography features a raised texture which stands in contrast to the stitching of the calendar’s border.

To share the calendar as a printed object, the embroidery has been photographed and printed in black and grey duotone to a 1:1 scale. Each calendar is hand numbered and comes pre-folded in an envelope.

Calendar 2025: Pulled Thread can be used as a decorative item or as a functional calendar. If you wish to use it as a calendar, carefully separate the sheets along the perforated lines by hand.

Dimensions magazine: 440 × 480 mm (170 × 220 mm folded) \ Concept and embroidery: Masaki Komoto \ Graphic design: Yuri Sato \ Photography: Ayako Nishibori \ English text editor: Ben Tupper \ Printing: Offset duotone at RadraaierSSP (Amsterdam, NL) \ Edition: 300