Imari Christmas ornaments

Design: Piet Design

The Piet Design classic Delft blue ornaments now available in the festive colours of Imari: red, blue and gold.

With this set you can make five paper Christmas ornaments; 3 large baubles with a diameter of 9.5 cm. and two smaller baubles with a diameter of 6.5 cm. Take out all parts and slide them into each other according to the instructions.

No scissors or glue needed.
Detailed instructions inside.

Christmas ornaments go back a long time. In the Middle Ages, during the darkest time of the year, people brought branches of evergreens into their houses. These branches were decorated with apples and nuts.

Later special biscuits and colourful home-made paper decorations were added.

The decoration on these baubles is derived from Imari motifs. Imari is Japanese porcelain which was introduced into The Netherlands by the VOC.

Its colourful combination of blue,red and gold made it instantly popular. Delft potteries responded immediately to this new demand, producing decorative objects in the same colours.

The basic shape of these baubles is the dodecahedron one of the five ‘solids’ of the philosopher Plato. Models of the dodecahedron are known from Roman times.