Explorations: Heavenly Machine: Japanese Culture: Craftsman in bamboo

Duration: 10 mins 7 secs
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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films

Bamboo is an almost infinitely malleable substance. A highly skilled craftsman shows the way in which it can be split, sub-split and then worked into many kinds of object.
 
Created: 2018-03-10 09:27
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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