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FRANCE, BAS-RHIN (67), STRASBOURG, MIREILLE OSTER CHRISTMAS GINGERBREAD CRAF (STRASBOURG CHRISTMAS CAPITAL) Photo by Jean Isenmann/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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FRANCE, BAS-RHIN (67), STRASBOURG, MIREILLE OSTER CHRISTMAS GINGERBREAD CRAF (STRASBOURG CHRISTMAS CAPITAL) Photo by Jean Isenmann/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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MIREILLE OSTER CHRISTMAS GINGERBREAD CRAF (STRASBOURG CHRISTMAS CAPITAL), STRASBOURG, BAS-RHIN (67) Photo by Jean Isenmann/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS)CHINA-CARVED LACQUER-INHERITOR-STUDIO (CN)

(240607) -- BEIJING, June 7, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Qingyuan, father of Zhu Jiang, makes carved lacquer at Zhu Jiang's studio in Gu'an, north China's Hebei Province, May 30, 2024. Carved lacquer, dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), greeted its peak time in Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing and Yangzhou have become the two centers for the craft of carved lacquer, which was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Carved lacquer differs in its colors, namely red, black or multiple colors. Its making procedures include designing, body shaping, lacquer making, coating, drawing, carving and grinding. The craftsman needs to smoothly use various kinds of knives to carve patterns on the ware, and even a little miss can destroy the whole artwork. The craft can only be grasped through three to five years of practice. Therefore, it is also called "the art of time." Born in 1976, Zhu Jiang, an inheritor of the craf

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-BEIJING-JINGTAILAN-INHERITOR-STUDIO (CN)

(240526) -- BEIJING, May 26, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Craftswomen talk on the skills of making Jingtailan at Beijing Enamel Factory in Beijing, capital of China, May 15, 2024. Introduced from the Arabian countries during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and became popular during the "Jingtai" years of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), "Jingtailan" represents a special localized cloisonne wrought of copper and porcelain. With patterns structured with copper wires and painted with enamel glaze all on a copper body, dozens of procedures including burning, grinding and gilding are applied to make a Jingtailan piece. Within 600 years, the craftwork are integrated into the traditional Chinese art. Beijing Enamel Factory, first set up in 1956, is the only China Time-honored Brand in Jingtailan making now also serves as a production and protection base of the crafts. Over the past 60 plus years, the factory cradled a team made up of professional Jingtailan craftsmen, and Zhong Liansheng, a Chinese Master of Arts and Craf

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HENAN-NANYANG PYROGRAPHY-INHERITOR (CN)

(240421) -- NANYANG, April 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A lover of Nanyang pyrography makes an artwork of pyrography at a training class of Nanyang Pyrography Factory in Nanyang City, central China's Henan Province, March 14, 2024. Nanyang Pyrography, a traditional Chinese art originated from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD), has a history of over 2,000 years. The craft, using tools with high temperature to draw patterns on carbonizable materials, creates visual effects resembling traditional Chinese paintings. It was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2021. Li Zhe, 54, is a provincial-level inheritor of Nanyang Pyrography. Having being engaged in the profession for 30 plus years, Li first used iron needle grilled by oil lamp to form patterns on chopsticks and rulers, which made it a difficult task to finish a high-quality pyrography as the temperature of the iron needle was hard to control. With the electric soldering iron replacing the old one, the quality and efficiency of the craf

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HENAN-NANYANG PYROGRAPHY-INHERITOR (CN)

(240421) -- NANYANG, April 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A lover of Nanyang pyrography makes an artwork of pyrography at a training class of Nanyang Pyrography Factory in Nanyang City, central China's Henan Province, March 14, 2024. Nanyang Pyrography, a traditional Chinese art originated from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD), has a history of over 2,000 years. The craft, using tools with high temperature to draw patterns on carbonizable materials, creates visual effects resembling traditional Chinese paintings. It was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2021. Li Zhe, 54, is a provincial-level inheritor of Nanyang Pyrography. Having being engaged in the profession for 30 plus years, Li first used iron needle grilled by oil lamp to form patterns on chopsticks and rulers, which made it a difficult task to finish a high-quality pyrography as the temperature of the iron needle was hard to control. With the electric soldering iron replacing the old one, the quality and efficiency of the craf

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-HENAN-NANYANG PYROGRAPHY-INHERITOR (CN)

(240421) -- NANYANG, April 21, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A lover of Nanyang pyrography makes an artwork of pyrography at a training class of Nanyang Pyrography Factory in Nanyang City, central China's Henan Province, March 14, 2024. Nanyang Pyrography, a traditional Chinese art originated from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD), has a history of over 2,000 years. The craft, using tools with high temperature to draw patterns on carbonizable materials, creates visual effects resembling traditional Chinese paintings. It was listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2021. Li Zhe, 54, is a provincial-level inheritor of Nanyang Pyrography. Having being engaged in the profession for 30 plus years, Li first used iron needle grilled by oil lamp to form patterns on chopsticks and rulers, which made it a difficult task to finish a high-quality pyrography as the temperature of the iron needle was hard to control. With the electric soldering iron replacing the old one, the quality and efficiency of the craf

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(MASTER OF CRAFTS) CHINA-ANHUI-SHEXIAN COUNTY-HUIZHOU INK-INHERITOR (CN)

(231031) -- SHEXIAN COUNTY, Oct. 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Zhou Jian checks dried ink sticks at a workshop of the Ancient Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory in Shexian County, Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, Oct. 24, 2023. Shexian County, located in Huangshan City of east China's Anhui Province, is known as the "Capital of Ink" dating back to the Southern Tang Dynasty (937-975). After it was renamed Huizhou in 1121, the term "Huizhou Ink", or "Hui Mo" in Chinese, stands for high-quality ink product in China. Huizhou Ink, a type of paint usually applied in traditional Chinese calligraphy and brush painting, is mainly made of pine soot, tung oil soot or lacquer soot, and colloid, and mixed with more than a dozen precious ingredients such as musk, gold foil and pearl powder. Due to its high-standard making procedures, Huizhou Ink is lustrous black in colour, solid in quality, anti-tinting on paper, unsticky with brush, long-lasting with time, fragrant in smell and mothproof in storage. In June 2006, the making craf