Tsumami Zaiku Brooch White & Gray – Snow Crystal Japanese Silk Pin

Snow Crystal Silk Brooch, White and Gray

Name: Tsumami Zaiku Brooch White & Gray – Snow Crystal Japanese Silk Pin
Brand: Tsumami Kanzashi Ayano
Price: 20000 JPY
Availability: OutOfStock

Tsumami Zaiku Brooch White & Gray – Snow Crystal Japanese Silk Pin

¥20,000

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We sat down with Ayano Fujii in her Matsudo workshop, where every petal is folded by hand.

A snow-crystal (yuki no kesshō, 雪の結晶) brooch in silk, folded petal by petal in the centuries-old tsumami technique. The form is the classic six-fold snowflake, a shape that stands, across cultures, for purity, stillness, and a kind of clean new beginning. In Japanese seasonal imagery the snow crystal also calls back to the winter landscape paintings that prize quiet over color.

Each of the six arms is built from 10 mm squares of silk, folded individually with tweezers and set with careful attention to symmetry and angle. Rather than pure white, the piece is finished in a soft gray on a white ground, so it reads as an adult winter accent rather than a holiday novelty. Glass beads at the joints catch light the way ice catches sun.

Made by Tsumami Kanzashi Ayano, the Matsudo workshop led by Ayano Fujii, a designated maker of Chiba Prefecture's traditional craft of Edo tsumami kanzashi.

Material (motif): Silk, glass parts
Material (back): Plated brass brooch pin
Width: 40 mm
Package size: 75 × 70 × H32 mm
Color: White ground with gray
Care: Avoid water and friction; store flat in the box
Origin: Matsudo, Chiba, Japan (handmade)
Maker: Tsumami Kanzashi Ayano (つまみかんざし彩野)
Lead time: within 1 month, made to order

Note: Because each piece is folded entirely by hand, no two are exactly alike. Slight individual differences in shape, petal angle, and color are natural to the craft.

A grown-up winter brooch that also works beautifully as a holiday-season gift, restrained enough to wear past December.

Avoid water and friction; store flat in the box.

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