This interesting art form came from the East. You can use the leftover threads and embroider various patterns on the balls using the temari technique. Temari or temari is an ancient art that came from China. Then the Japanese masters brought it to perfection.
What is Temari?
It was in China that temari was born. Then women made balls for children from rags from old kimonos. For this, the fabric was wrapped with threads and then decorated with patterns.
In the eighth century, such balls came to Japan, where they were first used as toys. Since these objects were very tight, they were kicked like soccer balls. Then the properties of temari balls were appreciated by street jugglers who began to use these attributes in their work.
Later, the daughters of the samurai discerned the decorativeness of these objects and began to make them even more elegant, embroidering various patterns on the surface. This was in the XIV-XVI centuries.
In the nineteenth century, the art of temori became popular, and the motives for embroidery became more diverse. To this day, this art form is very popular in Japan. There are thematic museums, the Association. And in schools, temari teach this kind of art, at the end of which students are awarded a degree of mastery.
If you briefly talk about how to make a temari ball, then fabric is taken for its base, which needs to be cut into strips and in a certain way give it a spherical shape. Sometimes balls, bells, and other objects that make ringing or noise are inserted here. The round base needs to be wrapped with threads, then mark its surface, which is then embroidered. You can decorate your creation with beads or a thread tassel.
We suggest that you mentally transfer to Japan to make temari with your own hands. You will see that anyone can master this simple science.
Temari - the Japanese art of ball embroidery
Here are the materials you need to get started:
- foam or fabric for making a ball;
- colored threads;
- woolen threads;
- pins;
- gypsy needles;
- dark fiber;
- ribbon;
- scissors.
First you need to make a round base. It's good if you have a styrofoam ball or a small ball made from some other similar material. But if not, then leftover fabric and even old tights will do. You can wrap these materials around a round object, such as the inside of a Kinder surprise egg.
If you want the temari ball to rattle, then pour the grits inside the plastic egg. Then the base is tightly wrapped with a woolen thread, giving it more and more round shapes. To keep the ball nice to the touch, wrap a smooth thread around it. It is important to hide the end of the thread well at the end of the work. To do this, you need to thread it through the eye of the needle, and then pierce that several layers of thread and fabric to remove the tail.
But you can leave it by making a loop in this place, with which you hang your creation.
After the base is ready, you need to make the markup. To do this, use a needle to thread a thread through the ball so that it is on any part of the ball. Here you need to stick a pin. This part will be called the North. On the other side, you need to install another pin, which will be called the South part.
In the process, you need to use a centimeter to make a uniform marking. Focusing on the pins, they need to be wrapped with thread, creating an embroidery.
It remains to decorate the unsewn parts of the ball using pearls or beads. You can also decorate these places with shiny threads, the ends of which must be securely hidden inside the workpiece. If you wish, decorate your work with a thread brush and an eyelet.
Now that you know how to make temari balls, we suggest you familiarize yourself with a step-by-step master class. He will teach you how to create a specific job.
Temari - master class
You can make Christmas balls using this technique and decorate the Christmas tree or the surrounding area. See how this lesson details the workflow.
First of all, take:
- fine cotton yarn such as floss or iris;
- threads;
- metallized threads;
- pins;
- fabric cut into strips;
- gypsy igloo;
- foam ball.
As mentioned above, instead of a foam ball, you can use a plastic container that matches the shape. Then you can put beads or beads inside it so that the finished product makes sounds like a rattle. For the base, packaging from under disposable shoe covers is quite suitable.
Cut the fabric into strips 2 cm wide and wrap them around the object. It is better to use an elastic fabric so that it stretches well.
Now wrap the resulting blank with threads, you should get a pretty elastic ball.
Stick a pin into the ball, attach a strip of paper to it, with a pre-cut notch so that this blank is held on the pin. Wrap the ball with it strictly in the middle.
Cut off the excess in this paper tape, and where the end meets the beginning, you need to make the same notch on it.
But you will need to make several of them. To do this, bend this paper strip in half, make another notch with scissors, and then you need to make another notch in the middle of each half section.
Wrap the ball with this tape, and where you made the serifs, stick on the pin as follows: drive them into each of the corners to mark two points of the equator and two poles.
Now unfold the paper strip so that it is perpendicular to the first meridian and use pins to mark a couple more points of the equator. See if the pins are level. If not, make adjustments at this stage by moving them slightly.
With the help of a thread and a needle, it is necessary to sew this ball crosswise along two meridians. In the photo, this step is indicated with a light green thread. If this is your first time doing this work, then it is better to take a thread of a contrasting color so that it differs from the yarn. Then you can see the work done well.
These meridians need to be divided in half again so that 8 rays depart from the poles, and they are located at the same distance.
Hide the end of the thread in the main ball. Now you can proceed to decorate the ball using the temari technique. To do this, you can take the rest of the thread, since in total there are not so many of them.
Pierce the ball with a needle so that its tip comes out near the pole, but not reaching about 3 cm. Now insert it so that it is 5 mm from any of the meridians.
In this case, the nodule should hide inside the glomerulus. Now, moving to the right, secure the thread as shown in the following photos.
As a result, you should end up with a four-pointed star. In the next step, make it eight-pointed, placing one more between each two rays.
Now sew over this shape with a contrasting color.
Here's how to further decorate the temari balls. Embroider another octagonal star next to the resulting one, using threads of a different shade.
In this way, complete several rows.
Fill in the center of this star, also embroidering here with thread.
Wrap the equator with two or three rows of threads, fasten them and make a loop on one side.
This is how you can make balls on the Christmas tree with your own hands using the temari technique.
This pattern is quite simple, when you master it, you can move on to more complex, for example, to this.
First, you also need to create a base, and then the layout of the future product.
To do this, you need to make 5 notches on the paper tape.
Using this template, you need to make marks on the surface of the ball by sticking pins here. Now you will need to embroider guided by them. It is necessary to form such rays, retreating about a third from the North and South Poles.
Now bring the thread towards the opposite pole and make an identical pattern on this side.
Then go back to the old side and sew a stitch next to the first with a different color thread near this pole. In the same way, you need to make the other elements of the picture thicker.
And at the intersection of the resulting rays, make rhombuses. In this case, the threads are white and red.
We continue to decorate the ball using golden thread.
Now stick the thread near one of the poles to make a loop here. You will need it in order to hang the resulting temari ball.
This is how wonderful it turned out.
Check out another master class that's great for beginners. Indeed, in the temari technique, you can make a lot of all kinds of patterns, Some of them are easy to come up with yourself, and some, already ready-made, can be taken as a basis.
How to make a temari ball - schemes for beginners
This is the kind of manual work you get as a result. Not everyone will guess what is hidden under the round ball. And there is an ordinary plastic container from Kinder eggs. See what you need to take for the master class.
As you can see, this is:
- thin and thick cotton threads;
- woolen threads;
- container from Kinder eggs;
- two beads;
- embroidery threads.
Check out the list of required tools. It:
- pins with and without colored beads;
- a needle with a wide eye;
- scissors;
- paper strip.
For a rattle effect, place a couple of beads inside the container. You can also replace them with dry peas, beans, or beans, or use a Chinese bell. Wind woolen threads around the Kinder egg container, placing the threads closer together. At the same time, give the resulting workpiece a rounded shape.
Usually a temari ball is made as a base so that its diameter is 7–8 cm. Now wrap the resulting woolen ball with cotton thread.
When you cover the woolen threads with the thickness of this material, then wind thinner threads over the thick cotton ones.
To get a scarf of the diameter indicated above, you will have to spend about a spool of thread. Now break off the thread, and secure the tip of it inside the ball.
Take a prepared paper strip, the length of which is about 30 cm, wrap it around the axis of the ball, cut off the excess.
Fold the paper tape in half, notice where the middle ends up. Now you will know where not only the originally created North Pole is located, but also the South Pole. Pin one pin at the given places on the ball.
Stick one more pin on both sides of it, but without the tips.
Make one more such mark, and wrap the ball with thread, directing it crosswise.
Then pull the thread through the entire ball. It should run from the North Pole to the South Pole through the Equator. Next, return to the starting point. Here you will secure the thread with a stitch, then rotate the ball 90 degrees and wrap the thread around it so that the workpiece is divided into 4 sectors.
In the next step, you will need to stretch a thread from a pin located at the North Pole to any one on the Equator. Secure it with a stitch. Now you need to stretch the thread to the next pin on the Equator and secure. Proceed in the same way until you return to the starting pin located on the axis.
Then the temari embroidery itself begins. To do this, take a dark blue thread and make 6 turns with it, placing them on all lines of the mark. It is necessary to wrap it so that as a result, there are 18 layers in each section.
Now you need to make the same winding in the other two directions.
Next, take a golden thread and wrap the elements of dark blue with it on both sides.
Then blue threads are used, they decorate the temari ball further. All this splendor is completed with a silver thread.
At the junction of the resulting ribbons, you will make a pattern that resembles a square. It will help to secure the threads and will be a great decoration for a temari ball.
Try to repeat any of the three presented master classes or come up with and implement your own pattern. If you still have difficulties on this path, then a video selection will certainly help you.
See how to make a temari ball. This master class is perfect for beginners, as it shows how to divide the ball into 12 sectors for further decoration so that they turn out to be even.
The next video lesson will acquaint you with how to then embroider the ball according to these markings.
Having mastered the first two videos of the lesson, you can make the same temari ball, which is described in the third. You will get beautiful diamond-shaped patterns.
