Kurotani in rural Kyoto is one of the oldest paper-making villages in Japan. For more than eight centuries, the villagers have transformed the mulberry plant into elegant washi (Japanese paper) products.
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Pulling strings to keep alive Myanmar’s puppetry tradition
In Yangon, one artist and his family are helping to save the country’s marionette heritage through education and staging puppet shows in their living room.
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Made in Hong Kong // 香港製造
The art of making the cheongsam by hand is becoming increasingly rare in Hong Kong. At Linva Tailors, the “sifu” (master) continues to design the traditional Chinese dress in his little shop beneath the Mid-Levels escalator in Central.
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Nothing gold can stay
Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. I came across this poem this evening and thought…
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