About Us
Three generations. One pair of hands.
My name is Dielle, and I am a third-generation Japanese Brazilian. My grandparents’ families came from Kumamoto and Akita, and around the late 1920s they left Japan for Brazil to build a new life. That is where I was born and raised.
I grew up surrounded by handmade beauty. As a little girl, I watched my mother hand-paint kitchen towels and napkins and create art with glass. As a teenager, my Japanese grandmother taught me to crochet. I loved it so much that I made a different bag for every day of the school week. I always had a heart for fashion and photography, but it would take many years, and a return to Japan, for that early love to find its true shape.
I had already lived in Japan for eight years when I returned in 2022. The next year I discovered two traditional Japanese weaving techniques, yotsudatami-ami (the square-knot weave) and hanamusubi (the flower knot). Then, in the summer of 2024, my grandmother passed away at 94. Her funeral was held in Brazil, and I was in Japan, far away from my family. In that moment of grief, I sat down and began to weave a bag, my hands busy and my heart full of memories of her.
That’s when I understood: the love of handcraft lives in me. It came from my grandmother, who made things with her hands until she was 90 and always encouraged me to keep learning and creating, and from my mother, whose painted cloths and glass art filled my childhood. I carry both of them in every piece I make. My first bag was made in my grandmother’s honor.
I moved to the United States in 2024, and in 2025 I gave myself fully to this craft. Each bag is handwoven in Jamestown, Rhode Island, using Japanese eco-craft paper band made in Fuji City, Shizuoka, at the foot of Mount Fuji. Some pieces are my own original designs, and others follow beloved patterns by fellow artisans. Every one is made slowly and with care, often over many hours or even days.
Every knot carries a memory.
Why Mount Sinai?
My family name, Saga (嵯峨), carries the kanji 山 (yama), “mountain,” in both of its characters. And it was on Mount Sinai that Moses met God and heard His voice. I asked God for direction, and He opened my eyes to see that this gift, passed down to me through my grandmother and my mother, is my calling. So the brand became Mount Sinai Crafts, シナイ山クラフト: a mountain of faith, family, and heritage.
Our Mission
To carry on the legacy of the women who taught me, and to share the beauty of Japanese weaving in colors and designs that feel fresh and joyful, here in the United States and wherever life takes me.
Handwoven with love, faith, and memory.
— Dielle