Hikaru Dorodango Tutorial

These are something to be seen! Today’s feature is from dorodango.com with their information about Hikaru Dorodango:

Hikaru dorodango are balls of mud, molded by hand into perfect spheres, dried, and polished to an unbelievable luster. The process is simple, but the result makes it seem like alchemy.

Materials Needed: Water and dirt. That’s it! Well, a plastic bag too, but wow! It’s amazing to see something so beautiful from plain old dirt and water.

The instructions are here: Create Hikaru Dorodango.

It struck me how nice would it be if you could perfect this technique and have a dorodango made with dirt from your own property or backyard. When your children grow up and leave home, they could each take a dorodango to always have a piece of ‘home’ with them.

Take a look at how beautiful these are: Gallery.

Also see this page about making dorodango. Some of the page is in Japanese so you may get a windows popup, but just hit cancel and you’ll be able to read the page in english (a bit further down).

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