Japanese Shodo
Months of the Year

Japanese calligraphy, shodo, (Japanese word for calligraphy) is a highly developed art form using brush and black ink to write Japanese and Chinese characters.
While similar to the decorative calligraphy of the West, shodo is more deeply rooted as a fine art form, in part because every character has meaning in and of itself and in part because of the great diversity of character shapes.

• The files you will receive separate the English and the Japanese characters by a color stop so that you may use two colors if you like.
• All fit your 4" by 4" hoop.
• Thread chart for each design is included.
• Click an image to see a larger picture.

You must have an embroidery machine to utilize our machine embroidery designs. We sell machine embroidery designs as electronic media (software) only. We do not sell embroidered "patches" or hard copy patterns.