Bamboos of Taiwan

Bamboo Tube Cladding and Drilling – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

2021-04-21

Bamboo Tube Cladding and Drilling – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

Although bamboo furniture is widely available across Taiwan to Southeast Asia, the techniques behind it vary. More

Butterfly-shaped Rattangle – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

2021-04-21

Butterfly-shaped Rattangle – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

A staple of Taiwanese bamboo crafts from the Japanese period to modern times, rattan can often be seen on the handles of all kinds of bamboo baskets in the form of a butterfly-shaped rattanlge, More

Star Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

2021-04-21

Star Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

As the embodiment of modest luxury, star weaving — also called spider web weaving — is where hexagonal weaving meets plain weaving. More

Square Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

2021-04-21

Square Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

The aesthetics of simplicity is never easy. More

Single-Circle Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

2021-04-21

Single-Circle Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

Single circle weaving is one of only two round shape bamboo weaving techniques and thus has been traditionally widely adopted for lanterns and lamp covers.  More

Hexagonal Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

2021-04-21

Hexagonal Weaving – Bamboo Craft Techniques in Taiwan

Hexagonal weaving is a common bamboo weaving technique and at the same time the most varied in terms of applications, making it possible for a craftsman to freely combine different finishing styles and decors. It also features a good weight-bearing capacity. More

臺南麻豆總爺藝文中心的顏水龍紀念館

2020-09-27

臺灣竹工藝產業的幕後推手 ── 顏水龍

臺灣竹產業在 1946-1969 年間,進入以手工藝為主的竹工藝產業發展期,產業的發展背後,除了美國萊特兄弟團隊的技術援助以及臺灣手工業推廣中心、中國生產力中心的成立以外,最重要的某一個人對工藝源源不絕的熱愛。 那個人,就是顏水龍。 More

臺灣原住民族的竹建築

2020-09-27

Taiwanese indigenous peoples

Taiwanese indigenous peoples or formerly Taiwanese aborigines, Formosan people, Austronesian Taiwanese[2][3] or Gāoshān people,[4] are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, who number almost 569,008 or 2.38% of the island's population More

臺灣竹產業發展脈絡

2020-09-15

臺灣竹產業發展脈絡

產業的形成仰賴特定產品的運銷生產流程建立,臺灣雖有上百年以上利用竹來改善生活的歷史,產業化至今卻僅有將近 80 年的歷史;根據雲林科技大學黃世輝教授的研究,臺灣的竹產業歷程約可分為⋯⋯ More

Ecology and habitats of bamboo in Taiwan

2020-09-15

Ecology and habitats of bamboo in Taiwan

臺灣到底有幾種竹子?光是在呂錦明的《臺灣竹圖鑑》中就記載了 89 種,其中更有 25 種為原生種;而隨著國際貨物的流通,臺灣的竹種也有越來越多的跡象。在近百種的竹種當中,林務局統計資料中常見的經濟竹種,則分別為:麻竹、綠竹、長枝竹、刺竹、桂竹、孟宗竹。 More

臺灣特色竹文化

2020-09-15

臺灣特色竹文化

臺灣橫跨北迴歸線,原本應是全島炎熱的地方,卻因位於板塊邊界而形成了高聳的山脈,氣候多元,也使各地因其風土性質而發展出不同的生活型態,不同的竹種也在各自的環境中與族群的生活連結在一起。 More