Japan Craft Tour with Paige: Your Gateway to Cultural Workshops and More! 🇯🇵
Embark on a journey into the heart of Japanese craftsmanship with our latest YouTube video! 🇯🇵 Join me at NONA Temari in Tokyo’s suburban neighborhood as I unravel the secrets of this traditional art form.
Explore the unique operations of NONA Temari that set them apart. This sustainable and locally-based business outsources the meticulous work of bundling and winding dyed threads to finished products to local residents, fostering community collaboration and supporting skilled artisans.
Discover the meditative aspect of Temari-making as I delve into its calming effects. Uncover how this timeless craft, with roots deep in tradition, shares a kinship with meditation, providing a soothing respite for the mind. Whether you’re an art enthusiast or someone seeking a tranquil escape, Temari-making at NONA Temari offers a unique blend of creativity and mindfulness.
Click the link to watch, learn, and perhaps find your own moments of serenity through the art of Temari!
Arigatou Gozaimasu for joining me on this exciting journey!
More about NONA Temari
Website: https://nonatemari.com/en
Instagram: @nonatemari_shop
YouTube: @NONA-rj5bf
Address: 3-21-7 Nishiogiminami, Suginami, Tokyo, JAPAN 〒167-0053
MAP: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1rExWu5k4g6V7gg7A
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Hi paig here with Mabel and today’s video is a recap of our Japan craft tour visit to Nona tamari for a tamari Workshop which was in Tokyo um Nona tamari takes a very modern approach to these tamari balls tamari balls are a traditional toy for Japanese children
But recently um they’ve become more of a home decor object or a decorative object and they’re really really fun to make you start with a plain ball um we learned how to make the balls they’re made at Nona Tamari with rice husk inside you can buy styrofoam balls and
Use styrofoam balls and commercially produced um embroidery floss to do your tamari but at Nona tamari they use the rice husk balls and they use um plants grown in their own little tiny little garden um in near their building to come up with the um Dy stuffs for their
Natural dyes uh this is some indigo coal mugart this is an undyed cotton um they also collect food stuffs and scraps from the neighborhood to add to their dieses I just feel like it’s a really great local neighborhood project anyways you start a tamari ball with um the wrapped
Ball and then it is um divided into sections you have a North Pole and a South Pole an equator and 16 sections um there on this ball you can see eight are with white threads eight are with blue threads and then you use some pins and these are very fine pins and
Short to establish your design on the ball by sticking the pins into the poles and um depending on the design pattern you’ll be making at different points around the perimeter of the ball then you use this extremely long embroidery needle um and it’s just a series of wrapping and turning with
Different colors to come up with your completed ball and you can see that this is the ball that we made in our Workshop um it has a design on the poles a really pretty star and then a design around the middle um it’s a quite meditative and
Fun way to spend some some time it’s not a diff well at least this pattern was not a difficult pattern um there were some that were super complicated but once you get into the the rhythm of inserting your needle twisting and turning the ball um it it goes really
Really quickly and it’s quite a nice way to spend some time so enjoy this video from Nona tamari um and you can hit like And subscribe so we’re here at Nona teari in um a Tokyo neighborhood and we’re going to be doing a workshop uh Tam Marti workshop
With our group um I’m here the day before just to um meet up with the two owners and we will tomorrow come and have our tamari Workshop but I wanted to show you this adorable store um before the workshop so in this space they do their dying and they have some retail
And come on in hello so over here they’ve got retail with the different um different threads that are all um dyed in the shop and um it’s all natural dies and then the neighborhood women do all of the winding for the shop so they’re very local in neighborhood
Centric business so and then over on this side they’re doing some dying and they just finished um that is chestnut Cy so so these are like new fall colors coming out but he’s super busy so uh son and R they’re the I said they were the
Owners of nonari okay so these are the C oh those are the chestnut they’re really really neat looking so and then the classroom space is Upstairs I love how you can then mold it around it’s awesome and you just nice um press if you find a l like a lump a traditional tamari ball is made out of rice husks so we started with the original um and we wrapped the threads
Around that to create our base for the tamari Embroidery oh wow wow you can hear the sound yeah this makes the sun when you wrapping that’s design like it’s it’s nice so this is total meditation if you doing oh yeah so I I really um people when I have something like a crowded
Like busy in end of the day so FR of stuff in your mind in your head is fruit maybe small things yeah sming it always M and then so that’s why I I really recommend people do it the end of the day or well makes you appreciate the
Shape of these how beautiful they are right these in to have the colors I chose four for dying how long does it take it takes um I don’t know depends on thei onion coal Indigo and onion and indigo and pagot day it goes off mhm and you open
It and keep the loop and open one more time and this one side is so you just cut all over the all through the whole thing with this okay so let’s see tamari embroidery involves dividing the ball into sections and then stitching around those sections and rotating the ball at the same Time I hope you enjoyed this video about Nona tamari we’ll be visiting them again this coming November November 2024 on our Japan craft tour and I think you will enjoy the workshop as much as we Did