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%.
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!
