Handmade Designer Women's Apparel
Ann’s clothing incorporates a diversity of hand-sewing techniques: beading, appliqué, piecing and embroidery. Her garments exemplify her love of exquisite natural fabrics and the palette of colors and textures they offer.
Ann collects vintage Japanese kimono silks, fine-stenciled prints and artisan paintings. She combines pieces from different bolts and re-sews them into new designs and motifs.
Ann’s finished designs look striking from a distance; up close, their impeccable attention to detail distinguishes them. Browse through our shop to find that unique handcrafted item you’ve been looking for. Visit our shop
I’ve been working on this shape for a while, first as an oversized coat then this newer, shorter version. I used a navy kimono silk and pieced it with squares and skinny strips of light blue and green. This back view shows that there is plenty of room. Arms down and next to the body, […]
I’m on it! Sewing new work for the American Craft Council’s 2018 craft show in San Francisco. Although, let me specify, I am sewing, but so far, not actually finishing. Yet. That’s next. Like this new Japanese jacket. Front and back pieced, cut out and ready to be sewn together. Not quite a jacket, but […]
Last weekend the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian reservation celebrated the 163rd anniversary of their 1855 treaty with the US government, Pi-Ume-Sha. Located in what us Portlander’s call ‘Central Oregon’, Warm Springs is the kelly green area in the upper middle of this map. A closer view. The 1855 treaty shrunk the Indian’s […]
