Taka Tomoko

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Born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1973, Taka has been fond of handicrafts since childhood and became a self-taught embroidery artist. After working at a general store, she opened her atelier and shop Taffeta in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, in 2011. She has actively presented her floral and geometric pattern embroidery works at solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Following the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, she launched the Miim Project to support children in the Noto area, including her hometown of Wajima City. In this project, Taka embroiders children’s drawings on tote bags and gives them as gifts to the children who drew them. Against the backdrop of the disaster-related closures of local bookstores, she also sends a picture book that evokes a similar feel with the drawing on each bag. The picture books she sends to children with tote bags are donated from all over the country. More than 300 tote bags have been produced to date, and the project continues to look ahead with 1,000 bags as its next milestone. The project name “Miim” comes from her hometown, Mii, and her mother’s name, suggesting that the project encourages people to consider anew their relationships with their hometowns and families after the earthquake.
Her major exhibitions include the solo shows Independent Research: Embroidery Research (homespun STRIPR ROOM, 2023) and Embroidery, Form and Color (Amenohi Coffee, Korea, 2019). She is the author of Floral and Geometric Embroidery (Hana to kikagakumoyo no shishu, Tokyo: Bunka Publishing Bureau, 2014).

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