Rusty Ring

(I made this fudo [look left; hanging from the bell] in 2009, for friends in Spokane County. When I took care of their farm for a few...

(Here are a few of the largest rings I've collected for making fudos . [Among those not yet deployed , of course.] Most of the mall...

This is Nicola White, my favourite mudlark. (Yes, I have a favourite mudlark. I also have other mudlarks, who, while not my favourite mud...

(Latest addition to my fudo-making stocks. I will cut this large, well-rusted washer off the bolt with an angle grinder.)

(Made this one for a local bike path, using some hardware I got from a shop in town.) Appearing also on My Corner of the W...

(Eight-strand kongo kumihimo in funerary white, red, and black on a joss coin ring. Hung in a stand of bamboo.)

(This is a funerary fudo I made for a cat friend of mine. [The cord is white, red, and black, the three bardos of death.] She was bu...

When I started writing Rusty Ring, away back in 2011 CE, one of the first fellow bloggers I connected with was the keeper of WillTaft.c...

(In the process of making fudos I generate a lot of scrap cordage. When the quantity gets too unmanageable, I knot it together into one...

(Latest fudo ring, collected from the beach after a storm.)

(Got this fine haul of fudo rings [many of which are reflecting a rare blue winter sky] from a local bicycle shop. Normally they'd ...

"Nothing that's dumb is Buddhist." Wu Ya.

( 100-year model; square ring, representing the Four Noble Truths, i.e. the four walls of the eremitical monastery.)

(A round dozen of fudo rings collected on a friend's ranch. They're black because I sealed them with rust converter.)

(Just collected these fudo rings this week. Anybody recognise them?)

I made this fistful of fudos for a friend's daughter who just graduated from high school. Graduation is an odd rite; we tell young p...

(Found high in the dunes; ancient relic of some wrecked seawall or dockwork. I collected the malleable washer, which is about 3 inches...

(The white, red, and black cord stands for each of the three Tibetan bardos of death. Hung by the grave of a canine friend.)

(Twelve-strand kongo Diamond Sutra model.)