After a small period of preparation, Matilda created a new blog and starts to write articles for San He tile kiln specifically, ideally it is going to have both English and Chinese in the future...
Hope can let people have more idea about San He Tile Kiln in Taiwan, and our culture as well.
Since 311 Japan earthquake, stunami, fire and nuclear radiation alert. This is shocking news all over the world, everyone hope Japanese can recover from the damage sooner, and hope there won’t be any natural disaster on earth...
In Taiwan, the two days event ‘ Send love to Japan, 311 disaster relief fundraiser event ‘ is on most of channels from 17 to 18 March. This event is hold by lots of TV companies in Taiwan. Our president gave us a speech before the event, which I personally feel very touching…
“ We would like to let people in the world to know Taiwan. Taiwan is a country that full of love, is a country that willing to help others, let’s send our love to Japan and help our friends.”
Taiwan is a small country geographically; we are not part of United Nations; we can finally travel to European without Schengen visa this year; sometime when I tell people that I am from Taiwan, they confused it with Thailand…(yeah, it happened really!) But we do have lovely people who helping friends from different countries; we do have a president who answering phone calls for donation during the event.
Do you still remember the hand-tailor bedquilt in gamma’s house, and the hand painting movie billboard? Do you know how to make bamboo steamer? Do you know where is the old man who painting malt sugar and the shop that makes embroidery shoes for over 50 years in Taiwan?
This is a story about a conversation between new generation and a hundred traditional professionals. In an age of rapid technological advancement as modern society, most of traditional industries are gradually decline in Taiwan.
Do you remember Matilda went to San-He tile kiln on Valentine's day?
I experienced how to make a hand made cup mat by tile, the cup mat that I made is done (wow, it takes nearly a month )
actually, it should take two month to burn the tile, but I was lucky that this is very small to fit into kiln.
here is the result
da la ----
Matilda also buy some products from tile kiln as well, another flower cup mat (well... I try to colour it by gouache) and a DIY set to build small house ...
Because of the softness of clay, I tried my best carving the line.
However, those lines still looks a bit funny though, haha
