A printed motif sits on top of the fabric and fades with washing. Embroidery is stitched into the cloth, raised off the surface, and it keeps its edges. It is also how Japanese motifs have been worked into clothing for a long time, which is why the four pieces here are embroidered rather than printed.
The motifs
Sakura, the cherry blossom, is the most recognisable image in Japanese design. Its short bloom has long stood for how brief good things are. Bamboo stands for resilience, the plant that bends in wind and does not break. Both appear here.
The pieces
The Sakura Embroidered Sweatshirt carries a cherry blossom branch embroidered across the chest and sleeves on a substantial 320gsm cotton-rich base. It is a loose crew neck, not a hoodie. Hoodie details like a kangaroo pocket and drawstring hood are left off on purpose so the embroidery reads clean across the chest. It runs M to XXXL.
The Embroidered Short Sleeve Shirt has bamboo embroidered in green against black, set to one side of the chest rather than centred, with knotted fastenings alongside a plain button placket and a flat collar. The Embroidered Mandarin Collar Shirt is long sleeved, with a fine tonal pattern raised across the chest and knotted fastenings down a low stand collar. Both shirts are also in Japanese t-shirts.
How to wear them
Let the embroidery be the only detail. The sweatshirt sits best over Japanese trousers or straight trousers with nothing busy underneath. The mandarin collar shirt wears buttoned with dark trousers; the bamboo shirt is a summer shirt over wide legs.
Flower embroidered sweatshirts
A flower embroidered sweatshirt is the piece most people are actually after when they search for embroidery on a sweatshirt, and the floral version is the one that dates least. The Sakura Embroidered Sweatshirt is exactly that: a cherry blossom branch stitched across the chest and sleeves, raised off a 320gsm cotton-rich base, on a plain crew neck. Because the blossom is embroidered rather than printed, it survives washing at full contrast instead of going chalky at the edges.
Embroidered jackets
If it is an embroidered jacket you want rather than a shirt or a sweatshirt, the fullest example of Japanese embroidery we carry is the satin sukajan, where the stitching covers the whole back. See sukajan jackets.
Caring for embroidery
Wash the sweatshirt cold and inside out, without bleach, then dry it flat or on a line to protect the stitching. The two shirts take a gentle cold cycle, hang to dry and a cool iron only.
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