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Temari Base

How have you been?
It's still really hot in Tokyo. We're preparing for workshops!

Just to show off how cute temari bases are:-)  In the workshop, you can choose your favourite one to stitch!

How come is it so round like a ball by only hands?

It's a typical first question when I show temari to my friends. 
My answer is simply yes, it somehow becomes a round ball!

We usually use rice husk as a core materials for temari base put some dry herbs like lavenders or rosemarry and aroma oil at home.

And use thin light paper like a tissue or clothe wrapping paper to wrap rice husks.

Hold carefully and start winding by temaricious base threads.It's finer than the temaricious stitching threads/floss and cotton 100%. 

As you gradually make a ball, try to make nicer and  flatter by pushing or grabbing by hands. I call this practice as in making a rice ball, onigiri.

Ideal temari base is like a melon mesh! threads cross each other irregularly.

And at the last process of winding, you finally put tention to make a base a bit harder.
Temaricious base threads become glossy in the end. It's simply beautiful. 

It's a meditation excise to make a temari base indeed. Play with colours and nature.

Round or circle is considered 'wa (和）' in Japanese and there is no start and no end. No up and down. Just peace and harmony:-)  Please experience temari making with us. 
It's much easier if we can advise you directly about tips of temari making. 

For workshop inquiry, please directly contact to shop and association. 

See you in Berlin, Prague and London soon!

Indigo Summer!

What Summer brings to Temaricious is fresh indigo dyeing work. 

Japanese indigo (TADE AI) seeds are born in the small Tokyo garden last year and brought to Tochigi farm in Spring and then look at this amazing indigo field in July:-)) 
Thank you for Mr. I. He has indigo fingers definitely!

Our indigo dyeing day was busy!

Cut indigo from the field and pick fresh leaves only. Then chop indigo leaves into small pieces (mixer can help you), then squeeze indigo juice out for a while. When green indigo smoothie is ready, you put wet raw threads into it. Then stir threads in it and wait for a while. Then wash threads with fresh water and then green threads change into bluuuuueee!! As you swing it in a circle in the air many times, threads become blue. It's a speechless experience to see this colour change. It must be a chemical reaction but for me it is just a magic of nature....

We see the blue part from the green leaves when indigo leaves are damaged or eaten and rain sometimes makes blue water drops on the leaves. It's such a mysterious scenery to watch. 

Indigo loves water when they are growing. Japanese rainy season in June is really for indigo not for busy Tokyo people otherwise! 

This indigo blue like a summer sky and water fascinates you soon!!

Enjoy your summer! 

Don't forget to join our workshop:-) 

Chop Chop

Green Smoothie and threads

Magic: Green to Blue

Swing in the air

Summer gift from Indigo

✌️ YES

Waiting for seeing you

Workshops!

Good day to all! 
Tokyo is having a rainy season now. How is your place?

Good news first and no bad news last: Temaricious workshops will be held in London, Berlin, and Prague in September. We are already excited to see you there! 

For details of the workshop, please call or email to the shops!!  
Everyone is welcome! No worry, just come:-) 
See you there!

I will post soon how we are preparing for the workshops! 


☆Berlin☆
06/September (Sat)  --- WOLLEN

WOLLEN (sweet yarn shop in Berlin)
www.wollen-berlin.de/workshops/temari


☆Prague☆
08/September (Mon) --- CJA

Czech Japanese Association 
(Anybody can join!)
www.japan.cz

☆London☆
16/September (Sat)  --- LOOP
17/September (Sun) --- LOOP

LOOP (lovely yarn sanctuary)
www.loopknitting.com/classes/temari_workshop.html

Wish You...

Temaricious at LOOP, LONDON

My first experience of LOOP was in 2007. This adorable yarn shop is literally a sanctuary for knitters. Full of soft colourful yarns, lots of inspiration in the shop.  I simply spent so much time walking  around and around in the shop.  After I bought a skein of orange yarns with bubbles from South Africa,  I kept the bubbly dream to deal with LOOP somehow in the future. 

And years later, my dream came true.

Temaricious natural hand-dyed threads are now available at LOOP! There is no other place to  buy Temaricious threads except LOOP. 

Happy Temaricous Day!

And thank you, LOOP!



Shop information:
LOOP
15 Camden Passage
Islington, London
N1 8EA
TEL: +44 (0)20 7288 1160
Nearest Tube: ANGEL
http://www.loopknitting.com/index.html


Online shopping:
http://www.loopknittingshop.com/category/518/Temaricious

Greeting from Tokyo!!

Long time no see, everyone! Tokyo is enjoying fallen leaves, colourful leaves on the street with sky blue. People started wearing thick coats and warps on neck. People somehow start wearing dark colour stuff. On the other hand, town gets red and green for Christmas countdown. Okay, here, two photos for you. Take care of yourself, don't catch a cold,which I got it from my sons.

TEA FOR YOU

TEMARI: Flower Basket

Item #1) 
Tea cup with saucer and sugar basin, part of a tea set, stoneware, marked "Ditmar Urbach T Made in Czechoslovakia" (Trnovany u Teplic, western Czechoslovakia, design c. 1930). Nearly perfect functionalism, strictly geometric form is complemented with decorative fixtures (sugar basin). 

ROKOKO RED

TEMARI: Chrysanthemum & Four-Leaf Clover

Item #2) 
Bowl on a stand, sweets bowl, sugar basin, clear glass, hand cut, ruby glazed, hand made gold plating, Bohemia, Austria Hungary, c. 1840, glass in the Biedermaier style (1815-1850), gold platet decor in "second" or "revival" Rokoko style (1830-1865).

Big appreciation to Antique Collector: Martin Stein, Prague