Time seems to stop at Eiko Araki's studio in Japan. Women sit around her in a small circle, painstakingly stitching intricate patterns on balls the size of an orange.
The Japanese traditional craft of creating "temari" or hand-crafted embroidered balls is at risk of dying out. But a group of women in the southwestern island of Shikoku are determined to preserve the ...
Even today, many traditional Japanese crafts are practiced while seated on tatami mats, and the action of hand-turning aligns with the bodily movements rooted in such traditional living habits. Just ...
At the center of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the Sanuki Kagari Temari, a Japanese traditional craft passed down for more than 1,000 years on the southwestern island of Shikoku.