With the needle moving carefully in her hand, images in Chen Yunzhen's mind's eye take shape across a piece of fabric, in colors across the spectrum. As if by magic, the two-meter long plain cloth is transformed into a thing of beauty, embellished with azalea and pomegranate patterns. Fifty-...

Let’s embark on a journey of discovering artisans in China.Today, we’ll introduce a man called Liu Waite Jozef and his story about playing football. Jozef learns that Chinese ancients play cuju. So, what’s Cuju? So how did they play it?To help Jozef find out the answers, his mother took the curio...

Do you know enamel? Have you ever thought about its making process?Enamel making has a history of 600 years. An enamel product has to undergo 53 steps last at least two months to complete. In earlier times, such products were considered luxuries much favored by the royal family and nobility.Enamel w...

Since you have known the history of woodblock printing last week, today we are going to introduce you its inheritation.Rongbaozhai woodblock printing was inherited and developed based on the traditional watercolor block printing and woodblock printing techniques. Before its emergence, Chinese painti...

Passed down from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the woodblock printing process mainly comprises delineation by color, block cutting and printing, which ensures the works stay true to the original ones.Based on archaeological findings, woodblock printing in China emerged in the Tang Dynasty and was used...

When it comes to bamboo, you may think of giant pandas eating bamboo. However, bamboo is a very cheap material, the technique and artistry of bamboo carving is the most brilliant. And the Frenchman Sebastien Puydebois showed a deep interest in green-retaining bamboo carving and learned from a master...