woven bamboo

Listing 1 - 10 from 21 for woven bamboo

Bamboo
... bamboo plays an important role in almost every country in which it occurs. In Burma and Bangladesh, about fifty percent of the houses are made almost entirely of bamboo. In Java, woven bamboo mats and screens are commonly used in timber house frames. With modern polymer glues and bonding cements, bamboos are made into plywood, matboard and laminated beams. Left: Giant timber bamboo ( ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

Chinese & bamboo
... bamboo, tortoise-shell bamboo, and purple bamboo. Cultivating bamboo in a mountainous area. Bamboo corridors surrounded by bamboo groves. Bamboo rafts. Woven-bamboo household articles and decorations. Bamboo shoots, like all newborn things, grow fast. Eating glutinous rice cooked in bamboo ...
www.geocities.com/zhuzi.geo

Hawaii Chapter of American Bamboo Society - Hawaii Bamboo Society - Big island of Hawaii Photo Gallery
... Hashimoto describes his bamboo sculpture as follows: This piece was created from locally harvested P. Aurea and heat treated to produce the dark hue of the frame elements. The woven bamboo has natural colored edging made by laminating split bamboo to the mat edge. The imagery of the "sails" comes from my interpretation of the triangular "crab claw" sails made from woven lauhala ...
www.hawaiibamboosociety.org

Ethno
... .apc.org . Textures, weaving together viewpoints and issues. Closeup of the brim of a hat, woven from Carludovica palmata (Cyclanthaceae), the panama hat plant. The hat was made in Totaizal, a ... holy hills of the Dai ethnic region of Yunnan; the economic botany of rattans and bamboo; edible flowers of southern China; and plant diversity in swidden agroecosystems. See ICIMOD for his ...
peopleandplants.org

Ethnobotanical Portraits
... leaves in a marketplace in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Photo © Roger R.B. Leakey. Textures are woven with cane from various species of Korthalsia (Arecaceae), a genus that comprises slender to robust ... Oceania of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI-APO) promotes conservation and use of bamboo and rattan in Asian countries. In 1996, IPGRI organized two training courses on rattan in ...
peopleandplants.org More from this site

Plant Fibers
... is made from a meshwork of pressed fibers from the pulp of bamboo, paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) or another species. It is commonly ... and are made into the lustrous "China grass cloth." Jute is woven into burlap, sackcloth and tough twines. Burlap is a coarse ... lures and traps. Female spiders are induced to build nests on bamboo frames which are then used as fishing nets. In the Solomon ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

ABS - Bamboo Arts & Crafts
... Bamboo Info Introduction Bamboo as raw material Bamboo arts & crafts Bamboo Businesses in China Bamboo collections Bamboo life Bamboo mites Bamboo mealybugs Bamboo on the Internet Bamboo People Worldwide Quarantine Regulations Other Bamboo Societies Bamboo taxonomy problems Growing bamboo ... pastel on paper interpretations of the woven surface of Japanese bamboo baskets. Pastel sizes currently range ...
www.americanbamboo.org

ABS - Milo Clark, A Bamboo Life
... tapa stamps are carved from split bamboo. In a society with no wheels, bamboo provided stout shafts for carrying the baskets woven, in part, from bamboo fibers. In the high Tantalus forest over Honolulu, among more peaceful places in all Hawaii is an expansive, tall bamboo ...
www.americanbamboo.org More from this site

Open Directory - Shopping: Crafts: Galleries
... of old time pottery, crafts, rug hooking, tole painting, stained glass, sculptured metal, woven handmade baskets, and rag rugs. Hoadley Gallery - Exhibits pottery, jewelry, glass, lamps, ... feng shui. Tai Gallery Textile Arts - Master artists of Japanese bamboo basketry, biographies and photos of woven bamboo basketry. Additionally, an extensive, well-illustrated section on plaiting techniques ...
dmoz.org

Open Directory - Business: Consumer Goods and Services: Crafts
... : Arts and Crafts (8) African Handwork Company - Handprinted cotton fabrics, pottery products, bamboo, and basket woven furniture from Malawi. Bella Crafts - Supplier of home decor and various crafts. ... sets, candles and wooden boxes. Poland. Xiantan Crafts Factory - Specialized manufacturer of bamboo handicrafts such as bamboo root handle, phone holder and flower pot holder. China. "Crafts" search ...
dmoz.org More from this site

These listings are filtered
View all for woven bamboo