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  • 93-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls

    93-Year-Old Grandma Shares 30 Years of Embroidered Temari Balls

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    Back in 2009, NanaAkua uploaded an incredible 468-picture gallery on Flickr that featured the amazing embroidery work of her then 88-year-old grandmother over a span of 30 years. Her grandmother practices a folk art form known as Temari. Meaning ‘hand ball’ in Japanese, the art form was introduced to Japan by China around the 7th century A.D. Traditionally, Temari…