In the China Pavilion at the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai, a piece of bamboo art resembling a Taihu Lake Stone was the center of attention. Qian Lihuai's bamboo weaving ...

Bamboo holds up homes, supports livelihoods and carries generations of skill across the North-East. It remains a sustainable ...

It was at the Agartala Central Jail that Krishna Das Pal learnt the craft of ‘fine bamboo weaving’. As a ‘jail police’, as local craftsmen refer to him, he fine-tuned the craft to such an extent that ...

Artisan Shibata Megumi is on a mission to preserve Torigoe bamboo weaving, an ancient handicraft tradition from her native Iwate Prefecture that faces the dual dilemma of withering stands of source ...

In the watery villages along the southern part of the Yangtze River, bamboo is a major part of people's daily life. Before Wuzhen, a village in East China's Zhejiang Province, became famous for ...

Zhang Yongjie shows woven bamboo hairpins in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. Zhang Yongjie, a 71-year-old farmer, began to learn ...

Editor's Note: To mark the 40th anniversary of the beginning of China's reform and opening-up, China Daily is featuring a series of stories on grassroots newsmakers. This is the first in the series.

Bamboo craftswoman Ketut Dipet’s fingers are adeptly weaving different colored sheets of bamboo. Once in a while, she weaved without even looking at what she was doing. “I’ve been weaving bamboo since ...

Besides his Taihu Lake Stone installation, Qian also displayed 12 woven bamboo patterns in unique shapes and colors that attracted attention at the expo. He says that many visitors to the CIIE do not ...

Zhang Yongjie shows woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng) An old farmer makes himself a bamboo ...