About NONA

 

We receive life from nature, carefully draw out its colors, and dye them into hundreds of shades of thread.
It feels like receiving that life all over again — so we make things close to nature, in quiet conversation with our own senses.

We hope our temari and natural dyes can bring a little color and a small sparkle to your everyday life — in a way that feels like you.
That is what we hope NONA can be for you.

 

NONA began with making temari from naturally dyed thread.

“NONA” means “nine” in Latin.
In Japanese, nine is pronounced kyū — the same sound as 球 (kyū, a sphere, like a temari) and 久 (kyū, everlasting). We put both of these wishes into our name.
Nine is an unfinished number, and because it is unfinished, it goes on forever.
On our journey of making, we want to keep taking on new challenges and keep embracing the possibilities that unfold along the way.

Making things that carry the past into the present feels like traveling through time.
We want to create things that feel new, yet still hold a trace of the time they have passed through.
We believe that enjoying this journey — living in the present with temari, natural dyeing, and all kinds of handwork — helps us rediscover both Japanese culture and the many cultures of the world.


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