Welcome to chamokayo's gallery. Kayo's practical hand work, knitting, sewing, basketary, woodwork, and metalwork are shown here! Hope you enjoy looking at these works!

Friday 5 December 2008


The embroidered place mats for my sons.



The Star pattern is for my second son, and the moon pattern is for my first son.
The pattern and its colour represent my son's temperaments.

Thursday 4 December 2008

pop-up card



This is a pop-up card made from one piece of paper.
I deliberately left the construction lines to show how I designed it.

origami geometrical solid 2



5 tetrahedron make this figure.
Complicated, but such a beautiful shape, isn't it?

origami geometrical solid



This is one of many origami figures I've made.
Based on a platonic shape, arranged to show the skelton.

basket with a handle



Simple basket with a handle.
The parts of the connection to the handle is my favorite.

I want to weave this using very thin split bamboo, mixing the Western taste and Japanese technique.

celtic pattern



The idea is creating celtic woven form basket.
This is just a trial, and this is no use practically.
But I still like this pattern and the idea of weaving celtic form.

I will try more.

shaker basket



The material is cane, so this is not really "shaker" style. But I made this using the "shaker" teqhnique.