Japanese traditional art "Tsumami Kanzashi"

We, four-OL's group, have attended two trial craft art lessons so far.
We made it every-month event. This time was my turn to find a good lesson.
I happened to find this Japanese traditional handmaid ornamental hairpin lesson which organized by Shinjuku-word city council.
The hairpin called "Tsumami kanzashi" in Japanese. "Kanzashi" means hairpin and "Tsumami" means to pinch. So we made the ornament by pinching a very small, 2cm x 2cm squar, piece of silk cloth with a tweezer. You can see all the materials to make a small ornament of crane in the first photo.
After you pinched the silk cloth you put the small pieces on the spreaded glue as you can see in the the second photo. Wait for a while until the silk absorb some glue. Then place all the small pieces on the cardboard-mount to make the crane shape or the butterfly shape which you can see in the third photo.









The last photo is the professional work!! Aren't they very beautiful? This kind of big-fringe-ornament hairpin is only wore by "Maiko", the young Geisha up to 16 years old, or at coming-up-age celebration. So I really really wanted to wear the big-fringe-ornament one for my coming-up-age celebration and actually got one.
My mum was carelessly leave the precious haipin on the floor when she helped me to get dressed kimono. And the very last moment we finished dressing she stepped on the hairpin(!!) and broke it. I was soooo shocked. I looked bad mood in all the photos I took in a photo studio for the celebration.
My broken one wasn't that expensive but this type of handmaid hairpin cost about 20,000 yen ($165).