專業: Bamboo Materials & Manufacturing

Rooted in an eco-friendly green craft mindset, Chiang Tsang Workshop collaborates and exchanges ideas with master artisans across Taiwan, passing down the torch of heritage to transform Taiwanese bamboo craftsmanship into a series of tactile, lifestyle aesthetic products that blend Eastern fashion and open up a new realm of bamboo art. The design style of returning to natural authenticity and vintage fashion not only showcases the emotional resonance of natural materials, but also brings bamboo craftsmanship back into people's daily lives, making it a precious collection for everyone. Taiwan's traditional craft industry faces the plight of impending extinction. At this critical and urgent moment, Chiang Tsang has traveled far and wide to seek out the few remaining top Taiwanese master artisans willing to support this cause, working together in unison. Combining traditional crafts with innovative design, we have picked up the mission of passing down heritage and driving industrial transformation, hoping that everyone can join hands to contribute to the preservation of Taiwan's precious cultural assets and bring new opportunities to traditional industries.

The flexibility of bamboo overlaps and twists in various ways, extending into unique appearances and expressions. Centuries ago, bamboo was an indispensable natural material in people's lives; it could be found everywhere in clothing, food, housing, and transportation. But somewhere along the way, after the popularization of industry, we all forgot how to treat the earth that nourishes us. Petrochemical plastics flooded our daily lives, utensils became increasingly disposable, replacements happened faster and faster, and bamboo products gradually disappeared from our lives.

Pao Chi Hsuan combines mediums and coatings to solve the flaws of the mediums themselves all at once, while using the original textures as an aesthetic to enhance the sense of value.

Puyuan Arts and Crafts is currently Taiwan's most robust enterprise in the research and development of laminated bamboo technology. It was founded by Mr. Dai Zheng-you in 1979. In its early days, the company primarily focused on exporting Calcutta bamboo furniture. After 1999, it also began researching and developing laminated bamboo, becoming one of the bamboo enterprises that benefited from the release of Ang Lee's 2000 film *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*.

Taiwan Takada Co., Ltd. is currently one of the enterprises with the most robust bamboo charcoal technology R&D capabilities in Taiwan. Founded in 1980 by Mr. Liu Ching-yun, the company was taken over by his son, Liu Chung-yueh, in 1988. Following a transition in 1997 to focus on bamboo charcoal technology research and development, the company has acquired the capabilities to develop and produce products such as bamboo charcoal, white bamboo charcoal, bamboo vinegar, and bamboo charcoal yarn.

Yueshan Workshop was founded in 2002 in Zhushan Township, Nantou County, by Liu Chao-ming, a bamboo artisan and bamboo material processor from the township. It is Taiwan's last remaining smoked bamboo processing plant, renowned for using a smoking method to transform the fresh, green color of bamboo into a deep brown hue.