https://www.alojapan.com/1255736/how-japan-turned-packaging-into-an-art-form/ How Japan Turned Packaging Into an Art Form #ChowaLibrary #ContainersAndPackaging #cultureissue2025 #handicrafts #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MonikaBincsik #news Bincsik says that it’s “getting more and more difficult to find kiribako craftsmen.” While out shopping recently, Kuwada was discouraged by how many mass-produced plastic boxes were for sale. In the early 1970s, her father sourced wood from the scraps of some 150 nearby…
https://www.alojapan.com/1235353/artisans-in-japan-uphold-the-indigenous-ainu-culture/ Artisans in Japan Uphold the Indigenous Ainu Culture #handicrafts #Hokkaido #HokkaidoJapan #HokkaidoNews #IndigenousPeople #JewelsAndJewelry #news #textiles #YourFeedFashion #北海道 At the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park, known for its lakes and bubbling mud pools, red torii gates stood out against the white snow that had blanketed this part of eastern Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. On a park path, I suddenly saw a Yezo sika de…
https://www.alojapan.com/1231894/sneakers-become-art-with-a-traditional-japanese-sewing-skill/ Sneakers Become Art With a Traditional Japanese Sewing Skill #ConverseInc #handicrafts #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #NewBalanceAthleticShoeInc #news #Otsuchi(Japan) #SashikoGals(sneakers) #sneakers #VansInc Atsuko Sato, one of the three needlewomen present that day, showed me a pair of Converses covered with cotton pieces in different hues of blue and accented with some purple stitching. “This kind of fabric is very soft, so it was not that…
https://www.alojapan.com/1226450/4-cant-miss-towns-in-an-often-overlooked-corner-of-japan/ 4 Can’t-Miss Towns in an Often Overlooked Corner of Japan #CeramicsAndPottery #ForestsAndForestry #handicrafts #islands #Japan #JapanTravel #KyushuJapan #NagasakiJapan #travel #TravelAndVacations If I stared too long, the glossy, petrified tree trunk seemed to pulsate energy through the roof, down into the walls and past the fragile washi paper screens. “The house breathes,” Akihiro Tokunaga, the building’s owner, explained, snapping me out o…
2022
Enjoy your favorite hot drink while creating your masterpiece 
#crochet #art #handicrafts
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I'm meeting some friends this afternoon for day 1 of a 2 daycare #Indigenous led #RattleMaking #workshop.
I'm happy like a small child to have found these #treasures at our international #embroidery festival! So great for my #BiodiversityShrines!
Even more important are the talks: With an author of embroidery books who sold these "scraps", and the employee of the #naturepark was just as enthusiastic as I was and asked me if I would like to join her in organising children's courses with #handicrafts on #biodiversity. Oh yesss! 
This weekend in Nanaimo, October 5 & 6!
The Mid-Island Woodworker's Guild is having a show and sale at the Country Club Centre on Saturday and Sunday during mall hours.
There will be twenty tables of members' beautifully crafted woodworks (including my partner's whimsical creations) to view and/or purchase. If you're in the area, come check it out! #woodworking #nanaimo #handicrafts
Instead of learning how to use Excel and doing exercises for my bad leg, I worked on my dollhouse. Like a maniac!
