The lives of inmates at Rukum District Prison have changed for the better after Suraj Pariyar, an inmate, started teaching bamboo weaving skills to fellow inmates. Inmates at the prison have now ...

Nepal’s diverse culture uses the bamboo plant for birth, death and all rituals in between. The versatile plant is also used for construction, to make musical instruments, to carry things, to write ...

Qian Lihuai's bamboo weaving Inception.CHINA DAILY It perfectly combined traditional craftwork with natural art, and demonstrated the beauty of the "thinness, perforations, convolutions and ...

Drawn from nature As an inheritor of Daoming bamboo weaving, a traditional craft from Chongzhou, Chengdu, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, the young female bamboo artisan, as if by magic ...

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 ...