kumo temari: next shop update

Saturday, December 29, 2012

next shop update

The next shop update will be January 1st, at 4 p.m. eastern time. It will be a small one! just two or three temari perhaps, but I wanted to do it on New Year's Day because temari are traditional as gifts for the new year (albeit the Asian New Year). It is (or was) traditional for mothers in Japan to make a temari and leave it by the bedside of her daughter to wake up to on New Year's Day.

So please drop by the shop on the first! Happy New Year, and thank you for all the support during 2012!

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do you sell temari?

I sell select temari in my shop on Etsy.com — KumoTemari.etsy.com. Temari are added to the shop as as I finish them, sometimes 2 or 3 at a time, on average once a week. To learn how to find out when new temari are added to the shop, please see the FAQ section of my shop policy page, "How to Find Out When Temari are in the Shop." The FAQ page includes instructions for joining my mailing list.

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temari diagram

The temari is traditionally referred to in terms relating to the globe. Thus, the top and bottom are poles (north and south), and the horizontal circumference around the center is the equator (marked in red; it's called the obi, which is the sash around a kimono). The vertical gray lines represent the division lines that are marked with thread on the temari before stitching. This is a "simple 8" division (S8), resulting in eight equal "wedges," as if slicing an apple from top to bottom (wedges is not an official term, but it gets the idea across). Divisions include simple (S) and combination (C) — S4, S6, S8, S10, S12, and S16; C6, C8, and C10.