He's been in a couple of my videos now, I think only on my second channel though

So maybe some of you don't know him

He's my good friend from Canada

We never met in Canada though

Go to my second channel for the story of how we met

Today we are going to "Arakawa Traditional Crafts Fair"

It's a traditional craft fair

Where they're selling lots of traditional Japanese crafts

Apparently all the proceeds go to helping rebuilding of Northern Japan

So yeah, that's pretty awesome

So we're going to go there, hope they have some cool stuff to show you guys!

That's really cool! I've never seen anyone make one

That looks so complicated!

That will turn into this when she's all finished!

Unfortunately this person is on lunch break

You can see they were stencilling patterns onto this cloth

and it looks like they were making "noren" - curtains

Pretty~ We'll have to come back when they are here so we can watch them

Hammering metal fans

There's someone making tatami here

They've got samples

I didn't realize there were so many different colours of tatami

I thought it was just a standard green

Whoa black! That's cool

They have multi-coloured! Striped if you will

That's awesome

You see this tiny little blue thing along the edge?

That has to be hand placed along the entire thing

I can see that taking a while

Oh yeah! It's got R2D2

Oh my god, I did not notice that!

He was just explaining that these designs over here

are originally from 100 years ago

and they get passed down to the new technicians

So they can keep up the traditional designs

But these ones over here, are some newer designs

Everything is carved out by hand

Oh wow! At this station they're making hair pieces

Traditional hair accessories

These are so pretty!

They can get really detailed

Norm's gonna serenade us

Building a shamisen

Hello~

I want all of them!

I like that blue one

It would be cool to have a set of all different ones

Norm also made a mini-series about our day together

If you guys wanna see those videos, I will link the playlist down below!

They're unlisted, but if you go through the playlist you're able to see them :)

Thanks for watching! And I will see you soon, bye!