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Temari is a one-thousand-year-old craft from Japan - essentially stitchery on a sphere. Diana Vandervoort has collected simple patterns and broken them down into basic steps in English that are lavishly illustrated. Temari utilizes an almost magical measuring technique that guides the beginner in creating precision designs to produce this beautiful craft.
Offers patterns and 382 diagrams for creating Japanese thread balls and tassels.
We are pleased to present a new title in this popular series from Diana Vandervoort. Temari -- kaleidoscopic, multicolored threadballs -- were originally children's toys in ancient Japanese society. This simple craft has since developed into the exquisite art form found in Temari Adventures. Temari Adventures offers nine delightful new designs, including a wondrous children's Christmas ball and instructions for "quick and easy" temari threadballs for beginners. And, for the first time, four projects are included uniting the temari craft with the gorgeous tradition of goten-mari -- using decorative fabrics pieced together to create spectacular quilt balls. Easy to follow, step-by-step directions are clearly illustrated throughout. The materials required are inexpensive and available in needlecraft stores throughout the United States and Canada. The patterns and techniques in Temari Adventures provide a base for infinite variations of color and designs.
Temari is the ancient Japanese art of stitching and wrapping threads on to the surface of a ball to create brilliantly-colored embroidered shapes. With more than 200 design ideas, Mary Wood shares her enthusiasm for this fascinating and unusual craft.
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Provides step-by-step illustrations for creating Japanese kimekomi, or fabric handballs, including sixteen designs, photographs, illustrations, and templates.
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'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Learn How to Make Beautiful Japanese HandballsWith little more than a needle and colorful embroidery threads, Barbara Suess shows how to make beautiful Japanese temari-a folk craft dating back to the to the 12th century. Crafted from the same silk threads used to weave elegant kimonos, temari balls evolved from playthings for children to an exquisite art form that delights all ages. Traditional temari incorporates centuries-old beloved patterns embroidered onto a simple handball. In Japanese Temari, Barbara Suess shares the secrets of making temari balls passed down through generations. Showcased in beautiful color photographs are 24 designs, starting with a simple pattern that can be comple...
“Virtually unknown outside Japan until recently, Temari consists of a ball core covered with plain sewing thread and finished on the outside with brightly colored embroidery thread in geometric designs. Twenty-two illustrated step-by-step projects for finishing the outside complete the book....An excellent and beautifully illustrated guide and is highly recommended for all crafts collections.”—Library Journal.