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Title: Dorodango - the japanese art of making a polished ball from soil
Post by: Sparkly on April 13, 2009, 21:48:33

Anyone had a go at this? Very impressive!

http://dorodango.com/

Title: Re: Dorodango - the japanese art of making a polished ball from soil
Post by: manicscousers on April 13, 2009, 21:51:52

there are quite a lot of clay bits on our plot, I dunno about balls, you could make house bricks ;D

Title: Re: Dorodango - the japanese art of making a polished ball from soil
Post by: terrier on April 14, 2009, 00:18:09

Evidently the name is derived from Doro (mud) and Dango(rice dumplings). Now if we could make them out of potting compost... ;)
How about 'polished root balls'? Something to do with all the extra plants you've grown on that you don't have room for!

Title: Re: Dorodango - the japanese art of making a polished ball from soil
Post by: THE MASTER on April 14, 2009, 02:20:35

ive been cheacking out the History of were i live
back in 1930ish were my allotment is now it used to be a brick yard alot of the clay has been dug out and used to make bricks .

apparently, so i have found out my clay is of the highest quality . maybe just maybe the clay from my area has made bricks that was used to build your house
8)

Title: Re: Dorodango - the japanese art of making a polished ball from soil
Post by: SPUDLY on April 14, 2009, 17:12:30

Wow, now i now what to do when it gets slow down the lottie. Happy polishing all. Go on you know you want to ;D

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