Tiny Friends: A Guide to Mosaic Embroidery is a book on making colourful toys using mosaic embroidery, a technique developed by the Japanese artist Tomomi Mimura. In this book, she introduces you to 13 animal characters.

 

Through detailed photography, illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Tomomi shows how to stitch and assemble whimsical stuffed toys and finger puppets that bring joy and inspiration to anyone around them. Mosaic embroidery is a technique based on simple darning stitches — all you need to get started is an embroidery hoop and some fabric, yarn, a needle and a pair of scissors! 

 

Tomomi Mimura is a Japanese embroidery artist best known for mosaic embroidery, a technique she developed from basic darning stitches. She has previously published three highly popular books in Japanese, which have sold nearly 100,000 copies in total. Tiny Friends is her first book to be published in English, and it's an honour for us to get to release it!

 

Take a look at the cute little friends featured in the book and preorder now. Publication day is September 27!