{"id":561,"date":"2010-08-22T20:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T12:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-09-21T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T05:27:38","slug":"art-and-craft-in-yunnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Art and Craft in Yunnan"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>There were\u00a0 numerous examples of art and craft in Yunnan.\u00a0 T he following photos show some of them.<\/p>\n

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These embroidered and embellished hats come from the Hani minority and I bought them from an elderly woman in at a market in southern Yunnan.<\/p>\n

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These bags came from the same market and from a cohesive group of women.\u00a0 The bottom one is\u00a0constructed using a modern material whereas the the other one uses hand loomed indigo dyed material.<\/p>\n

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This is the\u00a0front of a jacket one of the women was selling.<\/p>\n

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This is the back of the jacket made from\u00a0hand loomed\u00a0material and embroidered in cross stitch.<\/p>\n

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This is a store of wood ready for carving and creation.\u00a0 It was part of a area of woodworkers near my hostel in Dali.<\/p>\n

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A room containing some carved furniture in the same street.<\/p>\n

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A silversmith operating from the front of a shop in Lijang.<\/p>\n

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Another silversmith in Lijang.<\/p>\n

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Woven fish baskets at a market in a village near Dali.<\/p>\n

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Other baskets at the same market.<\/p>\n

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Some women using\/wearing their baskets in the market.<\/p>\n

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Man making sugar designs in Dali.\u00a0 These are common in other parts of China too.<\/p>\n

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Women spinning cotton in southern Yunnan.<\/p>\n

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Woman weaving on a\u00a0 loom in the same area with example of her work visible.<\/p>\n

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Man “beating” silk with a wire in the process of making a silk doona in a village near Dali.<\/p>\n

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Woman in a market in southern Yunnan making something that looks like crochet but using 2 hooks.<\/p>\n

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Woman wearing a bag from her head. The bag fabric appears the same as the previous photo.<\/p>\n

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A similar bag in a market which has been dyed blue.<\/p>\n

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Indigo plants in Dali. They are used for dying fabric.<\/p>\n

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Woman in Dali tieing a design in\u00a0 fabric.<\/p>\n

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Material tied and stiched ready for dying.<\/p>\n

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Dyed material waiting to be untied.<\/p>\n

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Batik tablecloths ready for sale.<\/p>\n

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The design on one I bought.<\/p>\n

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Woman weaving a scarf using a back strap loom in Dali.<\/p>\n

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Mosou woman in ethnic clothing weaving a scarf on a backstrap loom in Dali.<\/p>\n

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Part of a shop selling scarves and shawls in Dali.<\/p>\n

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Man carving pictures in a shop in Dali.\u00a0 Another common craft in the area with many being much more intricate.<\/p>\n

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Embroidery on a garment in a shop\/exhibit<\/a>\u00a0in an old village outside Dali.\u00a0 The owner of the shop had many beautiful old garments from his family.\u00a0 He also had more modern fabric items which\u00a0 for sale.<\/p>\n

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Similar style of \u00a0embroidery on a piece I bought from a gallery in Kunming.<\/p>\n

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Some of the items in an enormous gallery in Kunming.<\/p>\n

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Hand embroidered innersoles found in Dali.\u00a0 These colours are common to Yunnan.\u00a0 Woman all over China\u00a0hand embroider innersoles and plain ones are common in markets everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hand embroidery sold by Yi minority women in Kunming.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Another piece of tiny intricate embroidery sold by the same group of women.<\/p>\n

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Indigo dyed batik made with a wax resist to create the designs.<\/p>\n

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Applique of animals and birds on a tablecloth seen in Dali.<\/p>\n

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Silk embroidered fabric found in a market near Dali.<\/p>\n

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Design on a building near Dali.\u00a0 The traditional architecture is white brick decorated with delicate designs in\u00a0 grey paint.<\/p>\n

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A variety of hibiscus bark waiting to become paper in a village called Mansao in southern Yunnan.<\/p>\n

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The bark after it has received some processing.<\/p>\n

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The pulp has been added to a vat of water and the screens are ready to be dipped into it.<\/p>\n

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Paper drying on screens\u00a0 in the street.<\/p>\n

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Some paper I bought from a papermaker in Dali.\u00a0 This paper is more refined than that from Mansao and the blue paper has been dyed.\u00a0 I don’t have a good photo of my Mansao paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were\u00a0 numerous examples of art and craft in Yunnan.\u00a0 T he following photos show some of them. These embroidered and embellished hats come from the Hani minority and I bought them from an elderly woman in at a market in southern Yunnan. These bags came from the same market and from a cohesive group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,54],"tags":[14,33,9,15,97,40,32,96,11,66,99],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-yunnan","tag-architecture","tag-art-and-craft","tag-china","tag-culture","tag-dali","tag-ethnic-minorities","tag-kumning","tag-lijiang","tag-markets","tag-papermaking","tag-yunnan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}