These gorgeous and oh-so-sweet, colorful glass headed pins are like small gems! Each box includes 90 pins made in Japan. Hiroshima has a history of making pins and needles for more than 300 years. The pin points are polished many times making it surprisingly easy to poke into a variety of types of cloth.
There are 9 pin colors, which were inspired by Japanese plants and nature as well as NONA’s naturally dyed colors. Pin head size measures 3mm and the needle length is 22mm. This set of 90 pins comes in a NONA box made with upcycled paper, including rice husk (which NONA also uses for temari making as a core of the ball). In Japan, a country of rice, 2 million tons of rice husks are thrown out each year.
NONA creates art by corresponding nature and our own sense. To create naturally dyed colors with plants is to receive the life from nature again. To make a traditional temari is like traveling through time. NONA wants to create something new while embracing the feeling of years passed.