Friday, January 16, 2015

Kanzashi

I adore kanzashi, traditional Japanese hair accessories made of silk and rice starch based glue.
There are a lot of good examples online.
I've been making them out of ribbon, using a flame to melt the edges together, as I currently don't have any silk.
She makes some lovely kanzashi:
Kinga Owczarska

A lovely place to find info about kanzashi and kimono and the like:
Immortal Geisha Facebook
Immortal Geisha website

Nontraditional,but lovely:
Anastasiya Kulikova

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