bambooworking
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Functional uses
- Writing surface
- Writing pen
- Textiles
- Fabric
- Basketry
- Construction
- Fishing and aquaculture
- Firecrackers
- Weapons
- Desalination
- Musical instruments
- Indicator of climate change
- Aesthetic uses
- Origin and history
- Chinese literati and cultural phenomenon
- Decline
- Protection and inheritance of Chinese bamboo craft
- References
- External links
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Bambooworking is the activity or skill of making items from bamboo, and includes architecture, carpentry, furniture and cabinetry, carving, joinery, and weaving. Its historical roots in Asia span cultures, civilizations, and millennia, and is found across East, South, and Southeast Asia.
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