East Asia
Bodiless lacquerware
Bodiless lacquerware is based on clay, plaster and wooden bodies, on which grass or silk cloth and raw lacquer are mounted layer by layer...
Black pottery
Black pottery originates in the Yellow River basin in China. As an ancient ceramic of Han nationality, black pottery enjoys a good reputation. It...
Batik
Batik is a time-honored traditional folk handicraft art of textile printing & dyeing prevailed among the minority ethnic groups in China. It originated in...
Bamboo craftworks
Chinese bamboo craftworks include bamboo engraving and bamboo weaving. The engravings contain bamboo slip, inscribed bamboo board, wall painting, engraved and carved pen container,...
Architectural plaster painting
Plaster painting originated from the lacquer art on ancient Chinese buildings, which was mainly applied on the palace and temples to protect wooden buildings...
Chanthabun mat
Chanthaburi province has a plain geography, with part of it being rice fields. Sedge is one plant with excellent features for making mats, known...
Ceramics
In history and archaeology, ceramics are important artefacts that can be dated through scientific methods to offer insight into the development and cultural diversity...
Casting of ancient Buddha statues
Buddha statues have great significance among Buddhists, representing the Buddha himself as well as his teachings. These statues bear ideal features that are “characteristics...
Bencharong ceramics
Bencharong ceramics are enamelled terracotta ware originating in China in the mid-fifteenth century during the Ming dynasty. The Chinese tradition employed at least three...
Basketry
Endowed with a fertile land, Thailand was in the past an agricultural society with people making their own farming tools. Basketry was a craft...
Tinsmithing
Tinware production in human history dates back to the Bronze Age in China, when tin was used for daily utensils and warfare: it developed...
Rush Weaving
Rush, commonly known as the “mat rush,” boasts three Taiwanese varieties: the round rush, the triangle rush and the da-jia rush, or the yuan-li...