Wicker plaiting items

Wicker plaiting, my favorite natural handmade items.
I do love the natural things,like wicker plaiting items.They are definitely my favorite.Wicker can be plaited into all kinds of basket,vase,sofa,table,cabinet etc.I would like some of them in my house.
These products are all plaited by farmers when they are free from framing in our country. The wicker are also planted by framers. 

Unique gift,Cloth tiger

Do you ever hear from cloth tiger? All handicraft in China. It means grandma's love to me.                                                                                                          
Tiger is the symbol of dispelling evil spirits, protecting wealth and bringing safety and happiness in  China. So the grandma always sew a cloth tiger by hand herself for her grandson's first birthday. And the babies always sit on the cloth tiger to grasp things on their first birthday to  dispel evil spirits and hoping the future.
My grandma had sewed a cloth tiger for my future baby several years before she passed away. I love her so much. She is a great woman. 
    

Written by Cindy.

Necklace with pressed flower

Pressed flower necklace is to capture flowers at their peak and press them to preserve their beauty forever in the necklace,using as great a variety of flowers as possible. All the flowers are collected from nature.All the colors of pressed flowers are Mother Nature's,No dyes or coloring are used.

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Natural Pressed Flowers Art

Framed pressed flower art is an art that reforming an new artwork using the flowers, leaves and grasses collected from the nature. At first, all the flowers and leaves will be dehydrated to keep their original  attitude and color. And then the artists will design and reform an artwork taking advantage of the shape, texture and color of the flowers and leaves.


Natural pressed flower art reappear the charming beauty of nature to people artistically by natural flowers, leaves and grass. And they make people feel close to the nature.


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Natural Wheat Stems Art

Natural wheat stem art originate about 2000 years ago in China. They are all made by hand and have been certificated by the UNESCO as immaterial cultural heritage.


The wheat means a bump harvest. The natural wheat need to be processed through more than 20 crafts before creation. The artist reform an new artwork by cutting and pasting.The wheat art keep the natural shine and texture of the wheat and is stereoscopic, making people feeling close to the nature.


There is an old story about wheat stem art.2000 years ago, one day, the first emperor of China was pursued and attacked by his enemy. He hided into the wheat field in emergency and avoided the enemy. At last, he defeated his enemy and founded the first unitive and powerful dynasty in China. In order to commemorate the emergency, the emperor ordered the artists in the palace to make an artwork with the wheat stems.
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Natural Leaf Painting Art

Natural leaf painting art is an unique form of folk painting art. They use chosen wild broad leaf, remove their mesophyll without cutting any veins and make the leaves into leaf veins with several crafts. Then They painting on the leaf vein. Leaf painting art naturally blends the colourful painting and the natural shape and texture of the leaf through more than 20 processes. 


Leaf painting art is soft, light, thin and slim. It formed natural, stable and lasting color with complex and unique processing. All the leaf paintings are lean smooth and clear.


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Amazing Natural Leaf Carving Art

It's hard not to love the brilliant display of colorful foliage that signals the entrance of autumn each year, but no one will remember those leaves when they fall off. Leaf carving art will lengthen the the  life of fell leaf and make the leaf show the amazing beauty of its veins, profile and structure in another way.

Natural leaf carving art is actually a kind of handicraft cutting and removal of the leaf's mesophyll to produce an artwork on a leaf without cutting or removing any veins. They are all by hand, no paintings and printings included.


Don't they amazing? They are just so beautiful. They can carve anything on leaf. 

The leaves of the Chinar which is native to India, Pakistan and China are the most suitable to be carved.These leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves with beautiful, uniformly distributed and meshy veins. 

The leaves are treated with more than 60 working procedures before they can be used to make leaf carving artwork.The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to talk with the leaf. Carved from an actual leaf which has been dried and cured, leaf carvings come in various subject matter. As for contents, the various subjects are presented in accordance with the vein direction. And the veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.

The image carved in the leaf always implies some deep and unique meaning which gives a new soul to the leaf. The leaf carving art is good at expressing the deep meaning trough the performance of implicit mood.

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