New Years Kanzashi

These were actually made to be the backdrop of my monkey tsumami zaiklu (I ought to be working on that...), but I liked the designs well enough to have you look at more than one photo.

Made from kimono silk samples (the red fabric is from yuzen kimono silk), and vintage kimono that was retired due to wear (the green silk). Each petal and leaf was hand folded using a blend of traditional Japanese tsumami zaiku techniques, and my own modified techniques.

This is the shōchikubai ('three friends of winter') motif often seen around new years.