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Omikuji means "fortune." The pattern on this temari ball represents the strips of paper you would get at a Shinto Shrine with your fortune written on them. If you receive a good fortune, you would keep the paper, but if you receive a bad fortune, you would tie the paper to the branch of a pine tree. The folklore here is that the bad fortune foretold on the paper would wait by the tree instead of following you.Related content
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a beautiful temari, and a wonderful cultural tidbit i'd never heard before! just lovely
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Hello! I wanted to let you know that this was featured in #projecteducate 's Artisan Crafts Week as one of the most notable examples of artisan crafts. You can read the article here: [link] and feel free to be a part of the Artisan Crafts week, we have lots of activities and a contest going on!
Keep up the good work!
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How big is yours? Mine are all tiny - the biggest I've completed so far is just shy of 3" across.
I'm assuming (from other comments) that you are Japanese or, if born in the USA, have that heritage. Would you do me the honor of checking out the temari I have in my gallery?
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Is there a good site on the internet for learning how to do this, or maybe one with patterns? I would love to try it!
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I'm staring at how the different colors of thread are interwoven and can't see how it can be done! You are truly gifted.
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Beautiful
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Thank you! I kept changing the set up for this one because the temari looked so lonely and small by itself. This is actually one of my favorite pictures because it turned out so pretty.
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You certainly know how to set it up! Bravo for getting it right!
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Hmm.. it's quite the opposite for Chinese tradition.. 
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That's why I put the little stories behind the traditions here, because I know everyone has their own traditions and I really wanted to share mine and hear what others do!
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How about the Hawaiian part of yourself? I'm sure they have plenty of historical traditions in crafts
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Oh, absolutely, though the majority of the Hawaiian crafts centered around carving, which I'm just no good at. They carved everything, stone, wood, bone, gourds, shells. Wood carving was huge with our culture. Other than that, there was weaving (they made beautiful mats that they used to make entire shelters out of... floors, walls and roof)! I've done a little weaving in the old style, but, again, it's not something I'm very good at. I think because they were a very primitive society (you were either a hunter, a farmer or a fisherman) the majority of Hawaiian crafts were more functional than decorative. I have some bowls that were hand carved and I think they're gorgeous, but to anyone else, they would probably just look like bowls. Nothing special.
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I was thinking as I read your comment, that you could sort of amalgamate both traditional Hawaiian and Japanese decoration into your crafts.
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Very true! One of the characteristics I've definitely gotten from my Hawaiian heritage is the fact that while I love pretty things, but I also like them to serve a purpose other than taking up shelf space.
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That's beautiful, I never knew about that folklore either.
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That's awesome! I thought it was painted on then I realized it was thread! O_O
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Yup, two big spools of black thread to cover the ball and 10 skeins of embroidery floss for the design! Thanks!
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Thank you! I followed a pattern for this temari, so it wasn't as confusing as it could have been. Getting it started is a real pain-in-the-butt, but once you have all of the guide pins and threads marked off, actually stitching the pattern on the ball goes pretty quickly. It's that whole "getting started" thing that takes forever and makes you want to quit a dozen times before you even get anywhere because I learned the hard way that you can screw this up really easily!
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not only is this cool looking the little lore behind it makes it even more cool!
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I love being able to share some of my Buddhist and Shinto stuff with everyone. All of my friends and family here heard all of this years ago, so they're not interested anymore. Being on dA gives me a whole new collection of people I can get excited with!
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haha! use and abuse me! I like to learn!
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it looks gorgeous! I love its placement in the picture too ^.^
happy new year!
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Thank you, dear! I'm trying to be a little more professional with my pictures, so I'm spending more time creating backgrounds and finding props to make them more interesting.
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its fantastic, and you make such a nice pic of it!
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Thank you, dear! I am trying to make my pictures nicer and more interesting. Glad you like it!
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yeh i realy like it, very nice!
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Ooh! Very pretty! It's so colorful and round and nice!
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It reminds me of a quilt, for some reason! Probably the colors I chose. Thank you!
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You're welcome! It does look a bit like a quilt, only more colorful than the quilts I've ever seen.
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nice! Thanks for the background on your customs...very interesting!
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Thank you! I enjoy sharing with everyone! Makes it even more fun for me!
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