Studio: 14 Columbia Road, E2

Open: Tue–Sat 11:00–19:00

Aiko Tanabe smoothing a lace dotwork stencil beside indigo textiles

Ornamental dotwork

Aiko Tanabe

Tiny geometry, lace and ornament built from thousands of single dots.

Aiko studied textile design in Kyoto, and her ornamental work still thinks like fabric: repeats, borders and lace that wrap an ankle or sit in the curve of a spine.

Everything is placed by hand, one dot at a time. Her books are closed for new projects this season; join the waitlist to hear first when they open.

Styles

Dotwork · Ornament · Geometry

Tattooing

6 years

Books

Waitlist only

Healed work

Matching healed dotwork thread bands on two inner wrists

Wrist Threads

Inner wrists · healed

Healed ornamental dotwork drop running down a spine

Spine Ornament

Spine · healed

Healed dotwork crescent moons mirrored on both ankles

Dotwork Moon

Ankles · healed

From their flash

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№ 006

Crescent & Stars

£100

5 × 5 cm

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№ 007

Sun Mandala

£220

8 × 8 cm

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