Bamboo Craft

Bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful plants of the tropics and one of nature's most valuable gifts. China is the home of about 1/3 of the world's 1300 or so species of bamboo. As the materials, they are strong, light, smooth, straight and round. They have hard outer skins and are free from any pronounced taste or smell.
Bamboo is found abundantly and grows and increases rapidly. Only four years old bamboo is ready for use. For this reason, using bamboo as one kind of material instead of wood, is the GREEN idea of saving rain forest. Bamboo's potential as a multi-purpose product for the global marketplace and the ease with which it is grown and fashioned into salable merchandise.

Folk Woodblock Picture

It is a kind of picture enjoying popularity among the people with a large variety. A few of them are singled out for appreciation, but most are used for different worldly life and protocols, such as the portrait of the Gate God, the portrait of gods, illustration, pictures for packaging and decorating, window flowers, lamp pictures, kites, paper cards, colorful squares, flags and embroidery patterns. Of these pictures some are printed in a single color (black). Some others are printed in chromatography or by the continuation of color applying. It is a characteristic way of picture popularization from the invention of China's woodblock printing to the contemporary printing skill. Their authors are professional painter and engravers. Some of them are anonymously created by farmers.