Happy Hina Matsuri! Today is the Doll Festival (or Girls’ Day) in Japan. It’s a traditional festival during which families pray for the health and happiness of their female children. Celebration of Hina Matsuri consists of an elaborate display of royal court dolls 🎎 and a wide variety of colourful traditional food. Wishing girls around the world a happy and healthy life 💖
Continue readingHappy Luna New Year! Do you know?: Japan used to adopt the Lunisolar Calendar and celebrated Shogatsu the same time as the rest of East Asia.
Continue readingBeing the first post of 2022, we wish everyone a wonderful year ahead. あけましておめでとう!
Continue readingIt’s been two tough years, we wish you all a very merry Christmas.
See you again after the holiday!
Continue readingIt’s almost Christmas and New Year, and I think a clean at the studio is needed. My table is covered with flowers and half-finished work. I am sure having a tidy table is going to help me work better.
Continue readingOver the past weeks, we had been working extra hard to prepare the new stock for All Good Stuff at Butcher Works. After a few sleepless nights, all of the pieces can now be found in the shop.
As Christmas is closing by, we have also sorted out gift boxes for you and they are beautifully presented.
Continue readingInspired by the refreshing, cool and sunny days of early autumn, Ryo is a set of three bright and spirited headpieces.
Ryo features vivid yellow chrysanthemums and hand-painted blue asters, accompanied by platycodons and a hand-painted butterfly.
Continue readingBefore I begin, I would like to express my gratitude to Miss Tomomi Yamashita from Knot Japan, who provided valuable information on the history of Tsumami-Zaiku, as well as much needed support to fellow Tsumami-Zaiku artists around the world. When I began my artistic journey of Tsumami-Zaiku in early 2016, I could not find much information about the craft. Living in the UK, I didn’t have access to lessons or textbooks, so I learnt the…
Continue readingThis week our work was featured on another article by Yamashita Tomomi from Knot Japan.
This article’s focus is in collaboration of western fascinator and tsumami zaiku kanzashi.
Continue readingAnother attempt at making a Blue Ranunculus Flower!
We hope that you had a good long weekend.
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