Jammu, April 2 Artisans belonging to a village in Udhampur have still kept the art of making bamboo baskets alive. Over fifty families in Dhandal West village have preserved the art of bamboo basket ...

Students learning the skill of weaving bamboo boxes from artisan couple Narayana at a programme organised by Intach AMARAVATI: Intach state vice president SVS Lakshminarayana has said that youth from ...

One of the latest additions to my ever-growing number of kitchen tools and gadgets is the IMUSA Dim Sum Set. The set comes with four bamboo steamer baskets - one large and three small. I tested them ...

LLOYD COTSEN BEGAN what he admits has been “a 40-year love affair” with Japanese bamboo baskets when he walked into an antique store in San Francisco in the 1950s. “I was attracted,” Cotsen says, “by ...

Lightness, strength and flexibility are the hallmarks of bamboo. So it’s no wonder the woody grass has been used for centuries for practical purposes. It’s only been in the last 70 years or so, though ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Le Ngoc Anh has been known as a master of thuyen thung (bamboo basket boat) in central Vietnam as he has devoted his life in the past 30 years to sharpened his skills in making ...

I feel that the pieces I make must have musical qualities, changes in rhythm, a series of climaxes, and an overall harmony. --Shôno Shôunsai (1904-1974), bamboo basket maker and Living National ...

Udanti-Sitanadi Tiger Reserve launched a bamboo plantation drive and handicraft workshop on World Bamboo Day, empowering local artisans, especially PVTG communities. Around 1,200 bamboo saplings were ...