Kitsch of the Day(2012/03/02)
   The personal and the political are mixed in each piece. The only thing these objects have in common is that they are white, like the porcelain. Political symbols like weapons, corpses, doves of peace and Red Cross emergency vehicles are jumbled with sentimental motifs like a poodle, ice skates, ice cream cones, a Sumo wrestler and actors masks. One plate bears the debris of a war zone on the front, with crucifixes on the back and sperm swimming around the rim. Another pairs a spooky skeleton with cute lambs.

A Holiday Party in a Box(2012/02/28)
   Kristen Manolis, a designer and event coordinator in New York and Greenwich, Conn., wants to streamline your holiday to do list. Her Decor in a Box is a table-setting kit in a festive red package that, at its most basic, includes a linen tablecloth in one of five sizes, coordinating linen napkins.

Correction Appended(2012/02/24)
   A clever white ceramic serving plate set up like a game board is a cocktail conversation starter if there ever was one. The dish comes with instructions for playing solitaire on it. Fill it with assorted olives, take a turn, and if you jump, say, a Cerignola you then have to eat it. Nuts or other tidbits can also be served in it.

Gizmos and Gadgets for the Newest Foods(2012/02/21)
   You have got the frother and the dehydrator. Now it is time for the laser tattoo spoon and the Eye. The leaders of the molecular gastronomy movement are bringing the avant-garde food revolution home with flatware and serving pieces that require a new level of creative cooking and a sense of humor

Setting a Festive Scene For the Big Countdown(2012/02/17)
   Hold the dinner plates and soup bowls on New Year Eve, a night reserved for hors d'oeuvres and desserts. Hosts can get away with serving nothing but caviar and fancy sweets, washed down with Champagne. But proper accouterments are important .And paper and plastic will not do on Dec. 31.

What the Designers Brought to the Table(2012/02/14)
   Designers are finding ways to be more mindful of the environment, even when setting dinner tables. Last week, 57 tables for 10 were set by a group of decorators at Dining by Design, a benefit exhibition and dinner for Diffa, the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Some decorators turned recycled piles of newspapers into seating and found decorative uses for pieces of fallen trees and branches; one made placemats of slices of logs hefty platforms for fine dinnerware. More vases than usual held wisps of grasses or green leaves rather than the usual oversize bouquets of cut flowers, and one designer used digital technology to fill his space with virtual flowers.

Capacity for Colors and Images (2012/02/10)
   Lately, dishware designers have rediscovered melamines capacity for displaying vibrant colors and sharply detailed images. Mr. Anderson decided to join the melamine renaissance by transferring several of his graphic designs onto plates.That book included the drawings of animals and the cuts of meat they become. Mr. Anderson sent those images to a company that manufactures melamine plates for the United States military. He refused to identify the company, calling it a trade secret.

For the Converted And a Few Others (2012/02/07)
   Vegetarians who prefer a more whimsical approach, however, can now choose the four-plate Food for Thought dishware set. Three of the plates are decorated with clinical schematics of commonly eaten animals, showing exactly where bacon is hacked off a pig, or loin chops removed from a lamb potentially unpleasant reminders of meat¡¯s back story. And, as a macabre twist, one of the plates features a similarly diagrammed dog, implicitly asking what separates an Angus bull from a beloved family pet.

Rejecting the Usual for a Different Tonic(2012/02/04)
   Dissatisfied with the high-fructose corn syrup and artificial ingredients used to make overly sweet commercial tonic water, entrepreneurs are developing their own properly bitter versions. Charles Rolls and Tim Warrillow of London have concocted Fever-Tree Premium Indian Tonic Water using spring water, cane sugar, natural quinine and other natural ingredients. It is a mixer to be taken seriously. They also make bitter lemon and ginger ale.

Food Stuff(2012/01/31)
   New in the Village, the Spices of India. At Lassi, Heather Carlucci-Rodriguezs Indian take out place in Greenwich Village, she grinds spices every day, so they are always fresh. She now sells them retail, in decorated paper bags, in the store. Some, like musky mango powder, tart dried pomegranate seeds, coconut powder and ajwain, are not easily found elsewhere. She also makes her own blends like tandoori masala to rub on skinless chicken parts and marinate overnight before grilling, to give the meat robust heat, but no red color.

Picnic Blanket(2012/01/17)
   This summer, you might be surprised by the faces staring back from the picnic blanket. The British company Whitbread Wilkinson has created a line of melamine plates featuring portraits from the National Gallery in London among them, a platter depicting a detail from The Emperor Napoleon I ,by Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet ,a dinner plate with Portrait of a Man by Antonello da Messina ,and a side plate with one of the pair shown in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger . And more faces are coming soon.

Dr O Malley(2012/01/13)
   To do the research, Dr O Malley, 48, enlisted four medical students and a colleague, Dr. Thomas J Gilmore, a second-year resident at Jefferson, to buy pottery samples and test them. They wound up with a collection sold at 32 locations, with 87 pieces bought in Chinatown and 49 in nearby neighborhoods. Using a screening device commonly used for paint, the researchers examined each piece for lead content. More than a quarter of the samples tested positive.

Pretty Patterns That Camouflage a Poison(2012/01/11)
   When Dr. Gerald F. O Malley began work last summer in the department of emergency medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, he took a walk around nearby Chinatown and noticed the variety of elaborately adorned pottery for sale.

Spoons for Thinkers(2012/01/05)
   Everythings about S. Russell Groves is just so, from his style of dress to his choice of words, nothing is superfluous. A modernist who worked for Richard Meier and Peter Marino before starting his own architecture and design firm in 1995, Mr. Groves does not seem like the sort of person who would amass anything in quantity.

Sounds like he was waiting(2011/12/29)
   For sure. He said two sweet things to me, and that was it. It has been a pleasure to be near Charley is beautiful work and be reminded of him all the time and celebrate this astonishing amount of work. He is a real master.A lot of people know Charley for his bird imagery. I tried to turn a corner from the obvious route. So we thought we would celebrate imagery people have not seen.

Modernism Convention(2011/12/27)
   About 40 years later, I was in a junk store in Pennsylvania and saw a magazine called Ford Times. It was a magazine that Ford put out to encourage people to get in the car and drive, kind of a lifestyle magazine. Anyway, I saw the cover and something went crazy in my head, so I bought all I could and I finally figured out how I knew it that Charley had done it. When I figured it out, I knew I wanted to meet him.

Todd Oldham(2011/12/23)
   Todd Oldham has been many things in his 49 years,fashion designer, television personality, interior designer, product designer, film director, photographer and writer, just to name a few.I have had the greatest privilege of having a lot of adventures,he said. But I have been moving away from doing things where success is hinged on my face being stuck on things. It is a happy transition.

Dishware Before Creating This Line(2011/12/20)
   Did you know much about dishware before creating this line? I have collected a lot of plates and dishes through the years. Catalina pottery is my favorite. What I like about Catalina pottery is it is very sturdy and simple. Many years ago in New York City, when I lived there, I collected Fiesta. Those colors are just, like, in your face.

Wood Bowls With a Midas Touch(2011/12/16)
   Good design results in an everyday utensil that can go from kitchen to dinner table without raising its pinky and that even deserves gift-wrapping for a cook. This sleek, shiny stainless-steel slotted spoon with an extra deep bowl can lift pieces of meat, chunks of fish and mussels in their shells from a casserole or serving dish. It can also dredge up macerated fruit from a bowl of wintry glogg and transport it neatly into punch cups. A ladle will take care of the liquid .

Take an Old Master to Your Next Picnic(2011/12/13)
   How did you get interested in design. I have always been a person who buys shelter magazines. But I had no knowledge whatsoever. This only really emerged when I bought my first Spanish home. Well, actually, I bought a Lloyd Wright first. I bought the Ramon Novarro home in the Hollywood Hills. If you have a family, it is not as easy to live in a Lloyd Wright house. They are beautiful. But they have very, very small bedrooms.

Diane Keaton Gets Into the Design Game(2011/12/09)
   Now Ms. Keaton is getting into the design game herself, with a tabletop collection called K by Keaton that she created for Bed, Bath And Beyond. The stoneware cups, bowls and plates, which are available online and in some stores now, have her trademark whimsy some are stamped with the words eat or bite and lack of pretension prices start at about USD5. But they also reflect Ms. Keatons latest obsession the heartland. The farmy, landscape colors she used, she told a reporter, were inspired by wheat, grass and bark. too, like Pleioblastus viridistriatus, or Dwarf Green Stripe, which has chartreuse leaves striped with dark green ribbons.

A Decanter Inspired by a Snake(2011/12/06)
   Maximilian J. Riedel, the chief executive officer of Riedel Crystal of America, was born in 1977, the Year of the Snake, which may explain his fondness for serpents. Four years ago, he designed Eve, a long necked decanter that resembled a snake. Later, he said, he realized the shape offered unexpected benefits: it made it easy for users to swirl the wine to aerate it and t decanted wine much faster than the companys other models.

Bored With White Tableware(2011/12/02)
   Astier de Villatte, the French company known for delightfully imperfect white ceramic tableware, is adding color and graphics to its dishes, a result of a collaboration with John Derian. After almost 15 years, we were doing almost only white ceramics, said Ivan Pericoli, one of the founders of Astier de Villatte in 1996. It seemed natural to us, when we wanted to add images, to ask John, because he has a sensibility about color that is really close to ours.

Roz Chast Brings Her Characters to Fishs Eddy(2011/11/29)
   Well, it was rescheduled by the town for Nov. 6. Anyway, Bill has been scaling back. He originally made an announcement that he was going to quit the year before, but it is kind of like someone quitting smoking. You keep catching them with cigarettes. Are you going to have any smoke machines.I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason. I did not want to just put a cartoon on a plate. I wanted to make characters specially designed for the thing. Who does not need a celery dish. Even if you do not have any dishes, you need a celery dish. We have not put any in ours yet, but we definitely plan to.

A Filtered Water Jug for Company(2011/11/25)
   Some products just seem to resist good design. Filtered-water pitchers, for instance, which have squatted on refrigerator shelves for years. A few companies have tried to slim the profile, but the filter itself is enormous, said the industrial designer Karim Rashid, and water flows through so slowly, it is this frustrating process of filling it up.

Sacred Plant (2011/11/22)
   It was shooting time in the garden, and that is what we had come to see: every spring, the buds on underground rhizomes suddenly pop out of the ground and begin to grow at an amazing rate. Phyllostachys nigra, the black bamboo, was sending up shoots about three inches in diameter and four feet tall. Within a month they would attain their full height about 40 feet but they wouldnt get any thicker. Unlike tree trunks, bamboo canes do not grow in diameter; the following years new shoots will simply be a bit thicker, and so on, with each succeeding year.

Growing Bamboo(2011/11/18)
   Growing bamboo from seed or by division creates plants of different sizes, forms and colorations. But each species of these bamboos, growing by the tens of thousands in the Mount Vernon greenhouses, is amazingly uniform.Ms. Heinricher and I walked by long tables full of Borinda boliana, a clumping bamboo whose new canes come up pale blue, then turn to burgundy and purple, and Fargesia rufa, or Sunset Glow, a cold-hardy clumper with orange-red cane sheaths that make a good screen or hedge. There were ground covers, too, like Pleioblastus viridistriatus, or Dwarf Green Stripe, which has chartreuse leaves striped with dark green ribbons.

Bamboo Fibers (2011/11/15)
   Bamboo fibers are a renewable resource for fabric, food and paper. And experimental plantings in Alabama financed by the Agriculture Department between 1933 and 1965 showed bamboos promise for paper and other wood products: bamboo produced 14 tons of wood an acre, as against 8 for loblolly pine, a major source of timber in the United States.Many of these plants can now be produced on a vast scale, which is revolutionary for the garden industry. Countries like Belgium have explored the tissue-culturing of bamboo, but Boo-Shoots appears to be taking the lead.

Noninvasive Bamboo (2011/11/11)
   Ms. Heinricher, who grew up with bamboo her father tended golden bamboos all around their house in Olympia, Wash. first tried to propagate the plant in the late 1990s in a little greenhouse at her home in nearby Anacortes, where she lives with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, a marine biologist, and where she founded Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998.

A Cane the World Can Lean On (2011/11/08)
   Bamboo is a versatile, ancient plant that shows up in creation myths as well as in pots on Manhattan terraces. It comes in clumping varieties that behave themselves and running timber types that spread by rhizomes great for a grove, but not so good when they are planted as a property screen that escapes into a neighbors yard.

High on Grass (2011/11/04)
   While new-and-improved products are a constant feature of the consumer landscape, its still unusual to encounter novelty in the form of raw material. This may help explain the vogue for bamboo. Obviously this fast-growing plant its actually a grass is not new, either as a living thing or as the basic stuff of fabricated goods. Think, for example, centuries of Asian culture. Even so, bamboo has in the past five years or so gradually acquired a whole new level of popularity in the United States and maybe even a mystique.

Trying to Keep a Low Profile (2011/11/01)
   After several years in Eastern Africa, I am now gardening in Connecticut. Is there a small tree I can grow that will resemble an African acacia, the kind that looks like a flat umbrella?The sculptural distinction of Acacia tortilis, a k a umbrella thorn, is difficult to duplicate. But if you are willing to do some pruning and to keep away deer until the tree is tall enough for the foliage to be out of reach there are several candidates for creative substitution.

Time to Smell the Orchids, and Marvel at the Bamboo (2011/10/28)
   As if the collection of delicate and brilliantly colored flowers were not enough, the organizers of this year's orchid show at Rockefeller Center have added another horticultural touch, bamboo. Lots of it, hanging from the ceiling of the huge tent rising above the skating rink where more than 5,000 orchids are being exhibited.The bamboo sculptures are called Sogetsu, after an art movement created in Japan in the late 1920's and an offshoot of a Japanese tradition known as ikebana. The sculptures are created from thinly sliced bamboo,intertwined and falling from stalks suspended from the tent's rafters.

BEST IN SHOWS -- FURNITURE; Finally, Bamboo Gets Off the Island (2011/10/25)
   It took about three dozen workers four days to create the sculpture and about two dozen to install it. Thomas A. Madden Jr., managing director for Tishman Speyer Properties, the owners of Rockefeller Center, said that the company wanted to do something bigger, better and more interesting with the orchid show, now in its fifth year at the rink. The bamboo art, he said, is elegant, dynamic and rich in Japanese tradition.Mr. Madden added, It's one of a kind.

Chinese furniture (2011/10/21)
   Dr. Yip is selling half of his collection, mainly duplicates. The 68 lots include beds, bookshelves, 3 pairs of chairs, 16 tables, 3 screens, several cabinets, a footrest and an amazing variety of stands for basins, incense burners, clothes, braziers and weighing scales. Most of the pieces are huanghuali, many in the severely plain style favored by Westerners.

Classical Furniture (2011/10/18)
   Shing Yiu Yip, 68, a Hong Kong dermatologist, has been collecting classical Chinese furniture since the late 1970's. Most of his pieces were acquired from Grace Wu Bruce, a renowned dealer specializing in Ming and Qing antiques, with galleries in Hong Kong and London. The most important piece of faux bamboo coming up for auction is probably the 17th-century Chinese table in Christie's sale of the Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of classical Chinese furniture next Friday.

ANTIQUES(2011/10/14)
   What passion did Leonard Bernstein, James Beard and the decorator Mark Hampton all share? A love of faux-bamboo furniture. They were not the first, of course; faux bamboo has been popular since the 1860's. It's so likable, almost no one doesn't like it,said Margot Johnson, a New York dealer in late-19th-century American furniture from the Aesthetic Movement.

PULSE; Bouquets By Way of Machete (2011/10/10)
   Gerber daisies and wheat grass have had their day in the sun. The floral pick of the month: bamboo. At a party this month for Men's Journal at Milk Studios, bamboo trees were used as decorative screens, while hollow pieces of the bamboo stalk served as vases on tables.

Bamboo Bonsai (2011/09/30)
   In the Opera House, among the scrims and props, stands an oblong wooden crate shipped from Japan. It contains a six-foot-long brush that resembles an elegant mop. Mr. Teshigahara will use it to decorate rice-paper banners with calligraphy. Ten feet wide and 32 feet long, the banners will be inscribed with the characters for to fly, forestand love, and will line the walls of the atrium. Mr. Teshigaharas father, Sofu, founded the Sogetsu school of ikebana. The film maker remembers first seeing his father's creations when he was 5.

CUTTINGS If It Tries To Escape, Eat It (2011/09/27)
   I can see it now: killer bamboo marches across Central Park. That was my first reaction when I heard that the Horticultural Society of New York is holding a festival this month, with the American Bamboo Society, that actually encourages people to grow this plant. Don't say invasive -- say overly aggressive,'' Michael Alfano, president of the society's northeastern chapter, said, standing by an airy hedge of Phyllostachys bissetii in his garden in Port Washington, N.Y. Phyllostachys, or giant bamboo, can form beautiful groves of canes -- culms, they are correctly called -- from 10 feet to more than 100 feet tall, depending on the species.

The Bamboo Chair Sings a Sweet Song (2011/09/23)
   When William Lipton talks about Chinese bamboo furniture, he sounds more like a philosopher than a merchant. ''They say without meat, a man grows thin; without bamboo, he can't build a house,'' he said this week. And when you sit in a bamboo chair, it should sing. You know bamboo chairs were built to make that creaking sound. Mr. Lipton, 44, a New York dealer, has been thinking a lot about bamboo furniture since he came upon a few rare pieces in two warehouses in Beijing in 1993 and realized there might be more. Over the next two years, and several trips back to China, he amassed enough to put together the first exhibition of such furniture in this country.

Do not Be Bamboozled (2011/09/20)
   Craft and art? I shuddered at your article extolling the virtues and artistry of bamboo (Bamboo, Tamed, Bends to a Master's Touch, March 21). As I prepare to sue two contiguous neighbors who planted bamboo without underground barriers, I found your article failed to stress that bamboo is the vegetative world's equivalent of the cockroach. Perhaps with a $250,000 budget and a Japanese director schooled in ikebana, bamboo might -- might! -- be managed. The rest of us, beware: bamboo is higher on the food chain than we are.

Bamboo, Tamed, Bends to a Master's Touch (2011/09/16)
   Bamboo is as prevalent as a weed here, its tenacious roots and furious growth the bane of the home gardener. So it may have seemed like bringing coals to Newcastle when two truckloads of the stuff -- 1,800 30-foot-long shafts in all -- were delivered to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last week from a bamboo plantation in Augusta, Ga. Bamboo is the raw material of an extraordinary installation in the Kennedy Center atrium that will be open to the public next week. Its mastermind is Hiroshi Teshigahara, the Japanese sculptor, film director (best known for Woman in the Dunes), ceramicist and grandmaster of the modern Sogetsu school of ikebana, or Japanese flower arranging.

Not Just a Weed Anymore (2011/09/13)
   One of the world's oldest and most abundant resources is finally getting some respect. New technology is attempting to make a hero of bamboo, as an alternative to dwindling hardwoods. Bamboo has had a day or two in the sun before. As a standard-bearer of backyard tiki-kitsch, bamboo furniture and accessories hit a popularity peak after World War II. But while bamboo has always been a multifaceted staple in Asia, used in paper, as food and for building materials, it has been looked down upon here as a weed that's just thinking big.

Garden Q.& A. (2011/09/09)
   A Rare indeed are the city slickers who are not tempted by the first balmy spring day to make their corner of town green in a hurry. The problem is not the warm spring days, but the cool nights. By all means, give your plants a taste of the great outdoors as soon as daytime temperatures hover near 70 degrees. But bring them in at night. And do not start their summer vacation outside until nighttime temperatures stabilize above 70 degrees.

Plants Outlast Researchers (2011/09/06)
   Under natural conditions, botanists said, the two bamboo species in the experiment would not flower until they were about 30 years of age and 30 to 60 feet tall. It is very impressive that they've gotten the shoots to flower before they have any vegetative body to speak of,said Richard Howard, vice president for botanical science at the New York Botanical Garden.

More Panda Food (2011/09/02)
   Beyond its economic value, botanists say, the ability to hasten forest regeneration may benefit the endangered giant panda, which feeds on the reedy plant in the fast-diminishing bamboo wilderness of northeast China. Scientists estimate that there are more than 500 species of bamboo in the warmer regions of the world. The most spectacular examples of the plant, a member of the grass family, are found at the southern and southeastern edges of Asia, where lush yet delicate canopies of bamboo reach heights of 130 feet.

Bamboo Coaxed to Flower in Lab (2011/08/30)
   In a significant advance for the cultivation of one of the world's most important timber and fodder crops, scientists say they have coaxed bamboo plants to flower in the laboratory, a feat never before managed. Bamboo in the field can take more than a century to flower and produce seeds. The new technique will allow botanists to breed a better version of a plant that has undergirded the economies and cultures of Asia and many tropical nations for hundreds or even thousands of years. And it should allow faster replacement of depleted bamboo forests that are vitally needed.

SCIENCE WATCH: Bamboo and Pyramids (2011/08/26)
   ARCHEOLOGISTS have long puzzled over the means Egyptian pyramid builders used to raise and move immense blocks of stone without the help of wheels, pulleys or domestic animals. A new study suggests that the basic stone-raising tool along the Nile 5,000 years ago was the simple bamboo pole. Writing in the British journal Nature, John Cunningham of Skidmore College reported that slender, flexible poles were often represented in Egyptian art. Many modern scholars have proposed that the Egyptians used large, rigid levers to raise stones, but it is revealing that levers such as these were never portrayed as being used to move and transport things in Egyptian art, he said.

Wildlife Fund Cites Shortage Of Food as Threat to Pandas (2011/08/23)
   Bamboos differ from trees and shrubs in a number of ways. One is the culm width, which, unlike other plant stems, remains the same from the moment it emerges from the ground until its death as much as 10 years later. Bamboo plants continue to produce thicker, taller culms until the entire clump reaches maturity. Bamboos spread by underground stems called rhizomes, which grow out and away from the plant and enable new territory to be colonized. The plant's above-ground appearance depends on its rhizomes, which are divided into two growth types.

To recover the history and historical geography of the Chu state (2011/08/19)
   The Chu Ju chapter is included in Warring States Bamboo Strips Collected By Tsinghua University (Series One). Its strips are 50 centimeters long, the longest in the Tsinghua bamboo strips. In a style similar to that of the "Ju Pian" chapter of the transmitted ancient book Shi Ben, it records details of every Chu king's descendants and where they lived or the capital was founded, from Chu's legendary remotest ancestor Ji Lian to King Dao (401 B.C. - 381 B.C.) in the middle age of Warring States period. The capital place of every generation and the reasons for migration are also listed. The place names can be compared with those on previously excavated Chu bamboo strips. This information provides many clues for research into Chu's historical geography and relics, and it will certainly deepen the study on Chu culture.

To clarify some long-standing perplexities long existent in Chinese historical scholarship (2011/08/16)
   The Book of Historical Documents in current Shisan Jing Zhushu claims to be the "old text" version from the wall of Confucius' home. Many scholars' research after Song has proved it to be a later forgery. However, until now some researchers have sought to reverse that conclusion. The real "old text" Shang Shu in the Tsinghua bamboo strips can be of great significance for ending this controversy.

To represent the Book of Historical Documents (Shang Shu)and similar classical texts(2011/08/12)
   The first eight of the nine chapters of Warring States Bamboo Strips Collected By Tsinghua University (Series One) are from The Book of Historical Documents and similar classical texts. The Book of Historical Documents, a collection of ancient texts, is the most important source for research in pre-Qin history. Confucius was said to have compiled The Book of Historical Documents, and his version had as many as 100 chapters, most of which, however, were lost because of Qin's "burning of books". At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Fu Sheng from Jinan transmitted 28 chapters, which were called the "New Text" Shang Shu. At a late stage of the reign of the Han Emperor Jing (or in the opinion of some scholars during the time of Emperor Wu), the "Old Text" Shang Shu, which had 16 additional chapters, was excavated from the wall of Confucius' home in Qufu, but it then disappeared in the mist of history. Another version, called "Qi Shu" (writing in lacquer), which Dulin obtained from Xizhou, was not passed down, either. More than two thousand years then passed before the Tsinghua bamboo strips were discovered.

First Research Results on Warring States Bamboo Strips Collected by Tsinghua University Released (2011/08/09)
   In July 2008, Tsinghua University rescued and received into its collection a massive number of Warring States bamboo strips that had previously been smuggled out of China. These artifacts have been arranged and their quantity calculated. Altogether there are more than 2,500 pieces, some of which are fragments. Most of the inscriptions are texts related to the classics (Jing) and histories (Shi). The Tsinghua bamboo strips are thus concerned with the core of ancient Chinese culture and have already awakened strong interest among researchers both in China and abroad. No doubt this significant discovery will have a broad and deep influence on such disciplines as history, archaeology, ancient character studies and philology.

Bamboo Basket Chair--3 (2011/08/05)
   Hanging from the ceiling or propped on skinny black legs, the Akari pieces are a perfect merger of sculpture and function. Some look like huge larval sacs; others like Brancusi eggs or amoebic creatures. One takes the vague shape of bull horns, recalling Picasso or Miro, but also the backrest on the bamboo basket chair.Another attempt to join form with function was Noguchis 1941 laminated wood table, which he created for Philip L. Goodwin (who with Edward Durell Stone designed the Museum of Modern Art). The tables functional success is debatable: with its solid biomorphic form opening up a hole at the center, the table seems more like a Noguchi sculpture. Only its flat surface distinguishes it as a table. But you do not imagine plopping your keys and cellphone down on it.

Bamboo Basket Chair--2 (2011/08/02)
   The Japanese-American relationship to design was similarly complex. Westerners had embraced Japanese aesthetics in the form of Japonisme (as in the Impressionists love of Japanese prints). But as Bonnie Rychlak points out in her catalog essay for this show, Japanese designers had a habit of adopting and then rejecting Western design theories.Chairs were particularly suspect because traditional Japanese seating took the form of tatami mats on the floor. Chairs did not arrive until the 20th century, a product of Western influence.

Bamboo Basket Chair--1 (2011/07/29)
   The bamboo basket chair emerged from a brief collaboration between the Japanese-American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and the Japanese industrial designer Isamu Kenmochi (1912-1971).They met in the summer of 1950 when Noguchi made his first trip to Japan after World War II. Becoming interested in Kenmochis design for a chair that used traditional Japanese bamboo basket weaving, Noguchi drafted some ideas that were incorporated into the design.

Versatile Bamboo, an Appreciation (2011/07/26)
   Now that B.Y.O.B. (bring your own bag) is catching on in food markets, there are new additions to the bag wardrobe. Among them are ones made from tightly woven bamboo fiber that come in two designs meant for artisanal breads. The long one, or quiver, with a shoulder strap to wear while bicycling home from the bakery, is for a baguette; the pouch can hold two one-pound round loaves.

Bamboo also has been used prominently throughout The Upper House (2011/07/22)
   Most people in China still think of bamboo as a utilitarian material. In Hong Kong, you usually see bamboo as a form of scaffolding,says Mr. Dernoncourt, a long-time resident. Bamboo poles lashed together with strips of black plastic often encase high-rise construction sites and even serve as modified industrial ladders in indoor renovations.At the John Hardy office, more than 1,200 square meters, or 13,000 square feet, in a factory tower block since 2007, bamboo was chosen as a building material to evoke Bali, where the company has more than 500 employees.Of its 1,000 employees around the world, 50, mostly in finance, work in Hong Kong. But in addition to using the grass as a construction material, the jewelry brand also sees bamboo as a way to offset its carbon footprint.

A Lowly Grass Moves Up (2011/07/19)
   The headquarters of the John Hardy jewelry house here surprises with carefully crafted, contemporary uses of bamboo: as furniture, structural detail and the basis for an unusual video wall in the reception area.he once-lowly grass, commonly found in Asia, is moving up in the world of construction materials.We are beginning the new age of bamboo. It is getting there and it has a lot of uses,says Damien Dernoncourt, chief executive at John Hardy.For years, it has supported a planting project in Bali and on Nusa Penida island in Indonesia; this year alone it plans to plant about 95,000 bamboos, with an eye toward offsetting the carbon output from its manufacturing, advertising, travel and transportation.

In Bali, Bamboo Is the Bricks and Mortar--part 2 (2011/07/15)
   "Where I come from, in South America, bamboo is seen as a poor man's material. If you are rich, you won't use it to build a house. When I show people pictures of what we are doing here, they are amazed. They never thought you could do these things with bamboo." Each of the houses is unique, fitted around the plot on which it is built, said Elora Hardy, creative director at Ibuku. There was no need to bulldoze the jungle, dig foundations and build retaining walls: The structures simply rest on poles anchored in the rock, contouring around their part of the steep river bank.

In Bali, Bamboo Is the Bricks and Mortar--part 1 (2011/07/11)
   SIBANG, INDONESIA--When Macarena Chiriboga came to Bali in 2009, she had just finished a master's degree in architecture in the United States, doing her thesis on the use of bamboo as a building material. The trip was meant to be a vacation. But drawn by the unusual architecture of a school on the island -- the Green School, whose buildings are all made from bamboo --she was soon back, and is now designing buildings for a "green village"being built by the developer Ibuku International about an hour's drive from the Indonesian island's beaches.

Ditching the Plastic (and Paper) for Bamboo(2011/07/08)
   Now that B.Y.O.B. (bring your own bag) is catching on in food markets, there are new additions to the bag wardrobe. Among them are ones made from tightly woven bamboo fiber that come in two designs meant for artisanal breads. The long one, or quiver, with a shoulder strap to wear while bicycling home from the bakery, is for a baguette; the pouch can hold two one-pound round loaves. A common house usually had only host rooms and guest rooms, and only a host fire pit and a ghost fire pit. A fire pit covers about one square meter in the room and is made of mud. In the past, there would be three rocks in the pit for holding the pots to boil water or cook meals.

Villages of the Wa nationality in bamboo forests(2011/07/05)
   The Wa nationally villages are usually located on the flat grounds on the tops of hills. When they decided to establish a village, the first thing they did was choose a "Tree of the God of Land". Then, they offered sacrifices to the God of Land, and if the God showed a lucky omen, they would start the construction of their houses. The ¡°Tree of the God of Land¡± is usually to the upper right of the village. Every family could freely choose their house site.

Bamboo Forest a stage for football(2011/07/01)
   OCCUPYING 120,000 square meters, Bao"an Stadium is in the Bao"an CBD with floor space of 100,000 square meters.The 869-million-yuan project includes a stadium, a swimming pool and a track-and-field arena with an underground car park.The 40,000-seat stadium will be used for the football matches for the Summer Universiade.Bao"an Stadium, nicknamed Bamboo Forest, was designed by German GMP International Architectural Design Co. in partnership with the Design Institute of South China University of Technology.The lush bamboo forests of southern China provided inspiration for the design.

Security system and improve the strategy(2011/06/28)
   In order to protect the international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry, the effective promotion, the Government should promptly adjust and improve the industrial policy system. Try to sync with the market changes, in order to achieve wood-based panel of regional distribution companies and product structure more reasonable, from the macro to guide enterprises with the development of the market the development. First, wood-based panel of leading enterprises through supportive policies, actively promote the company with a base, the base mode of operation with farmers to promote industrial-scale wood-based panels and specialized, intensive development.

Output and export volume increased year by year(2011/06/24)
   Second, the development of plywood for wood-based panel industry, the anchor. Plywood is now China's major wood-based panel industry's most competitive industries, has maintained a relatively high share of international markets, compared to other wood-based panel products are concerned for our country. Plywood export revealed comparative advantages are obvious, vast room for growth. Has close to export-oriented industries. Output and export volume increased year by year in the international market, an extremely important position. With plywood as the anchor of China's wood-based panel industry. Is determined by its deep historical roots, highlighting the performance of industrial competition and excellent industrial competitiveness by decision.

Wood-based panel industry, when they should take the group conditions of the road(2011/06/21)
   At present, China Wood-based panel of private enterprises mainly through reorganization, merger, joint, bankruptcy, debt to equity, as well as the development of a diversified economy ingredients absorbed by means of the formation of large enterprise groups, economies of scale, to economic and technical as a link, complementary advantages, promote enterprise reform and vigorously promote the fundamental shift of economic growth, rapidly expanding industry, strength, enhance their competitiveness.

Green Development Strategy(2011/06/17)
   At present, many of our low-quality wood-based panel products, cheap, waste resources, pollute the environment. Has seriously hampered the growth of export trade. It raises concerns for environmental protection. In the international market in order to maintain market share. In addition to the State continue to improve the environmental mechanism, give appropriate preferential treatment. The strategy of the enterprise itself but also to make corresponding adjustments. For example, the promotion of green production, develop green products, to green design. In the production process saving and efficient use of resources and energy. Great efforts to develop environmentally friendly, low cost, excellent quality, in line with international environmental standards for green wood-based panel products.

Technological Advances Strategy(2011/06/14)
   For a long time, China's middle and low wood-based panel industries are relying on low-cost products in the market competitive advantage. However, accession to the WTO, the middle and low head increasingly fierce competition in wood-based panel products, conventional products, profit margins have been compressed to the limit. At the same time, trade protectionism as a very inconsistent with the WTO's long-standing phenomenon in world trade. This will require the number of wood-based panel industry in the past will be transferred to the expansion of the development model to improve the quality of the development track. While technological innovation is the only way to achieve this shift.

Raw material supply expansion strategies(2011/06/10)
   China's wood-based panel industry, the market plenty of room for great demand. To increase the effective supply the biggest problem is resources. To solve the problem: First, we must attach importance to nurturing the development of reserve resources and accelerating the "Lin board integration" process, to encourage enterprises to raw material forest base Wood-based panel to synchronize the planning and construction simultaneously. Take the "forest board integration" path. That The wood-based panels to create a large scale enterprises belonging to the enterprise since the industrial raw material forest, and to ensure high input, high survival and high returns, to make a scientific upbringing, fine work, careful management.

Industrial core of the selection strategy on disposable products(2011/06/07)
   Chinese wood-based panel industry is composed of a number of distinctive sub-industry. These sub-industry in the international competitive edge of the contribution made by the entire industry is different. Determine the leading industry is one of the most important industrial policy: First, fiber as a new focus. Fibreboard industry is not present, China's international competitiveness in Asia the most wood-based panel industry. Market share in the "three board" in the location in the middle. However, since 2000 began to adjust their international competitive advantage of increased international competitive advantage has become pronounced, completed from import-oriented type of mutation to the trade balance, and export-led development.

Green Hill (2011/05/30)
   First prize winners receive $300, and other finalists¡¯ cash prizes range from $100 to $200.Judging criteria included variety of plants, condition of plants, using color effectively and citizen participation. For the street tree care, judges considered the soil levels, how the trees were pruned and maintained and whether any dead trees or dangerous limbs were visible.The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership tied for second place in Best Street Tree Beds for the block between Clinton and Waverly.

Green Bamboo Dinnerware (2011/05/26)
   In such a good way to go green is to look for more bamboo products. You can find practically everything made from bamboo. Tables, cutting boards, clothing ranging from shirts and pants to socks. Because this resource is more renewable than any other used for these products, you should look to bamboo for your needs as often as possible. The clothing is soft and comfortable, the cutting boards are just as effective as any other material, and the furniture is just as sturdy, without the high cost of having to come from a tree that will take decades to fully re-grow.

The international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry-- environmental issues (2011/05/23)
   The biggest advantage of wood dinnerware and bamboo dinnerware is environmental and green. More and more world's people use them. Bamboo and wood tableware are all made of bamboo or solid wood, beautiful and unique, not only practical, but also artistic ornamental valuable. Place in home, they combine practical and art deco effect. The domestic bamboo kitchenware specially focus on consumer's details of life, in the detail to meet the consumer's consuming habits as possible, reducing the complex processes of food production to a button 0K-style.

The international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry-- product brands (2011/05/19)
   For a long time, due to production and operation management of non-standard and market disorder, China's wood-based panel of counterfeit products flooding. Violation of the norms manufacturers and consumers. Industry-wide quality assurance system is not perfect, products, reputation and market share of lower corporate image poor, less-known brands such as a serious problem. However, steady progress in recent years, as wood-based panel industry, enterprises are gradually strengthening brand awareness: as in the production of medium / high density fiberboard as the representative of the Zhejiang Beauty, Luyuan and other enterprises in the whole industry in order to form a certain scale and impact of the industry. has entered a positive phase of development.

The international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry-- product mix (2011/05/15)
   At present, China's wood-based panel product structure is not entirely reasonable, it is difficult to adapt to changing market demands: high quality large-diameter class proportion of wood as raw material of plywood too large. Accounted for 40% of total wood-based panel. While the world average is only about 30% : The harvesting and processing residues, urban waste wood as raw material, the proportion of smaller particle board. only 9% of the total world average of about 35%: OSB, high-performance composite panels, no glue wood-based panels, non-timber resources and crop straw board products such as the ratio is low; special purpose board, special size board, sheet molding board and environment-friendly production of small, wood-based panel industry in China is not conducive to a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development.

The international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry-- capital (2011/05/10)
   China's wood-based panel industry has been insufficient capital investment, capital intensity is low, and capital strength weaker. For example, enterprises in developed countries in R & D capital investment is generally 5% to about 10% higher high-tech enterprises R & D investment, China's overall R & D investment of less than 1%, and wood processing enterprises with fewer R & D capital investment. You want by controlling the resources required to reduce product costs, ensuring the product research and development, quality improvement, technological innovation, scale, marketing, etc. have a greater investment, so as to effectively enhance the international competitiveness of wood-based panels is very difficult.

The international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry-- labor costs (2011/05/06)
   Although wages in recent years, China's labor situation analysis, labor costs increase year by year, but our wood-based panel industry's employment, total wages and average annual wage Jun Cheng a decreasing trend. In 2005, for example, China's wood processing and bamboo and rattan palm grass products industry practitioners and workers in the post than that in 2004 a decrease of 0.1%, compared to 2003 decreased by 0.16% and 0.14%: the average annual wage of workers employed is only 8739 yuan , while in 2003 an increase of more than 0.16%, but still at a very low level. In general, the labor costs in developed countries 1 / 10.

The international competitiveness of China's wood-based panel industry-- natural resources (2011/04/29)
   China is the world's wood-based panel producer. While the wood-based panel industry, which really belong to resource-dependent industries. Lack of domestic natural resource endowment, international environmental voice of the grim situation caused by imports of raw materials and the upsurge in tension between social needs, determine the limitations of China's wood-based panel industry and enterprise to survive the difficult nature. Wood-based panel highlight the lack of wood raw material reflected in the following aspects:

Leaders' opinions on Bamboo Resources (2011/04/26)
   Ghana¡¯s Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Henry Ford Kamal, said 70 percent of Ghana¡¯s energy was obtained form wood sources, which without proper management is a serious affront to sustainable energy development in the country. According to him charcoal will continue to play a major role in energy in Ghana and that the idea of an alternative to wood charcoal was welcome, stressing that Ghana will promote the development of bamboo.

Government Policies and Proactively Help Promot Bamboo (2011/04/22)
   ¡°It is absolutely critical that the processes of the project in both Ghana and Ethiopia respect existing Government policies and proactively help in promoting sector governance issues and raising awareness of environmental aspects and consequences of the project. In this respect one should be mindful of the deforestation taking place in both countries ¨C and one must understand the causes for this and be aware that simply introducing a new energy source may not necessarily in itself solve all the problems¡±.

EU Supports The Sustainable Development Of Bamboo (2011/04/19)
   The European Union (EU) has contributed EUR 1.3 million (GHC 28 million) to support the management and sustainable development of bamboo as a new source of energy in Africa, precisely Ghana and Ethiopia. The support is being granted under the Project for Bamboo as sustainable Biomass Energy: A Suitable alternative for firewood and charcoal production in Africa.

Comparison with Tablewre in Different Materials (2011/04/15)
   Now the tableware material is in a large quantity,we have a lot of choices,such as ceramic,enamel,wooden,bamboo,plastic,glass,iron,aluminum,copper,stainless steel and so on,as science research shows to us ,some of these material have toxic substance,if this substance touches food,it will goes into human body with food,and break your health,so we should choose tableware very carefully.
   As people use tableware day by day,tableware material is very important to all of us,it is a big impact to human health.A lot of people just think we should wash tableware very clean to avoid sickness,but the material itself is a very big problem too.

Biggest Advantage Between Wood Dinnerware and Bamboo Dinnerware (2011/04/12)
   The biggest advantage of wood dinnerware and bamboo dinnerware is environmental and green. More and more world's people use them. Bamboo and wood tableware are all made of bamboo or solid wood, beautiful and unique, not only practical, but also artistic ornamental valuable. Place in home, they combine practical and art deco effect. The domestic bamboo kitchenware specially focus on consumer's details of life, in the detail to meet the consumer's consuming habits as possible, reducing the complex processes of food production to a button 0K-style.

Bamboo and Wood Tableware (2011/04/08)
   1. The origin of bamboo and wood tableware (Chopsticks)
Let's talk about the origin of bamboo and wood tableware from Chinese unique chopsticks.
Chopsticks, known as "Zhu"in the ancient time, it's recognized as a unique cutlery. For the European and American people, it's a bit hard to learn how to use chopsticks, but once they are able to manipulate these two gadgets skillfully, they can use them extremely smartly, so western scholars praises chopsticks as a representative of old oriental civilization, and a fruit of Chinese nation's intelligence and wisdom.

Bamboo and Chinese Culture 2 (2011/03/29)
   Bamboo is also used to make traditional Chinese musical instruments such as the sheng, a reed instrument; the di, a flute; and the xiao, a flute held vertically. Bamboo Flute (Dizi) Woven bamboo arts and craft come in a wide variety, including toy animals, lanterns, flower baskets, trays, tea boxes, screens, and curtains. Bamboo weaving is popular in the provinces of Guangdong, Fuijian, Hunan, Sichuan, and Anhui as well as Zhejiang which has a history of bamboo weaving going back more than 2.000 years. Bamboo Furniture Bamboo is also used in Chinese medicine. The leaves eliminate heat and phlegm; the juice cures stroke, insanity, and a kind of asthma caused by excessive phlegm; and the root can stimulate the vital forces, quench thirst, and promote lactation. Bamboo's resistance to stretching and its ability to support weight are at least double those of other kinds of wood, making bamboo an ideal material for houses, scaffolding, supporting pillars, and work sheds. Tall and graceful with luxuriant foliage, bamboo is an ideal plant for household courtyards and parks.

Bamboo and Chinese Culture 1 (2011/03/21)
   Bamboo and Chinese / Chinese Culture: China is known as the Kingdom of Bamboo because it has the most bamboo of any country in the world. More than 400 species of bamboo, one third of all known species in the world, grow in China. China leads the world in the amount of area planted with bamboo, the number of bamboo trees and the amount of bamboo wood produced every year. The area that produce the most bamboo are south of Changjiang (Yangtze) River, and the biggest producers are Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The oldest archaeological finds of bamboo articles in China were unearthed from the remains of a primitive society that existed some 7.000 years ago in what is now Hemudu, Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province.

Bamboo Bike 2 (2011/03/15)
   The endurance of the streamlined Bambike was put to the test at the mountain biking event 'Tour of the Nilgiris" in December 2009. Ravi Ranjan, founder of 'Tour of the Nilgiris," says that the bamboo bicycle has good features and aesthetics but some additions can improve its efficiency and functionality. "I feel the Bambike could be improved with front and rear de-railers, gears, a better seat post and a pedal with cleats which makes the bike more efficient. The bike itself as it is has very good frame structure, and is lighter as compared to many of the bikes available otherwise."

Bamboo Bike 1 (2011/03/10)
   An interior designer in India has invented an environmentally friendly bicycle with a bamboo frame. The bamboo bike - or "Bambike" - cuts down on the consumption of steel or aluminum for each bicycle by more than 3 kilograms compared to those made with a metal frame. What looks like an ordinary bicycle from a distance is in fact a hand-crafted green machine.

Bamboo Hit List (2011/03/06)
   The smallest known bat (Tylonycteris pachypus) also depends on bamboo. The postage-stamp-sized Asian mammal roosts between the nodes of mature plants, which it enters through holes created by beetles. In Africa, endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) and mountain bongos (Tragelaphus euryceros ssp isaaci), a type of antelope, depend on bamboo for food and shelter respectively. And in Madagascar, lemurs, bamboo frogs and the world's rarest tortoise (Geochelone yniphora) are similarly at risk.

Eats Shoots and Leaves (2011/02/28)
   There are many different types of bamboo, including woody, climbing and herbaceous varieties. Woody bamboo is found in Asia, in the forests of the Amazon and the Andes, and even in African cloud deserts. InAsia, giant and red pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca and Ailurus fulgens) depend on woody bamboo for a food source. An estimated 1,000 giant pandas still roam free; each munches its way through 38 kilograms of bamboo a day.

Bamboo Forest--3(2011/02/22)
   The sun shines through the dense bamboo onto the bushes. The fragrance of alianthus prickly ash attracts the female butterflies to lay their eggs. The leaves will be food for the larvae. The male butterfly has to fly around searching for a mate. It must complete reproduction in the 30 days before the rainy season.

Bamboo Forest--2 (2011/02/17)
   In the vernal warmth, the rain signals to the bamboo shoots that they should sprout. Once they have sprouted, the bamboo shoots must summon all their energy. Speed is now essential. The first ray of sunlight after the rain triggers an outbreak of competition. As the fastest-growing plant in the world, the bamboo will rise to over 20 metres in just 45 days.

Bamboo Forest--1 (2011/02/14)
   In February, the moso bamboo is still covered with snow. The young bamboo shoots have been dormant under the cover for the past three months. On the tip of a bamboo far from the bushes, a cramer butterfly pupa hides among the leaves. Both the pupa and the bamboo shoots are awaiting winter's end.

Bamboo keyboards expect to bring green life to users--Part I I (2011/01/26)
   The new product was awarded a patent by the State Intellectual Property Office on November 28, 2007 for its utility and novelty, Feng said."You needn't worry that it might crack even if it drops from a one-meter-high table. Its user-life is no shorter than a plastic one," he said.The new product has also won applause from computer and woodcraft experts.

Bamboo keyboards expect to bring green life to users--Part I (2011/01/24)
   NANCHANG -- Eight hours of computer work everyday always makes white collars feel boring, but Zhang Keli has found a welcome respite from office chores -- a bamboo keyboard."It's a novelty to me," said 28-year-old Zhang, a fashion-loving employee of the Jianshou Advertisement Co. Ltd. in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, the hometown of bamboo.

China's Bamboo Industry Booms for Greener Economy -- Part I I(2011/01/17)
   China's bamboo industry has provided more than 35 million jobs, making the sector part of the new drive in the economic development of the world'slargest agricultural country. The bamboo sector chalked up 70 billion yuan (10.33 U.S dollars) in total output value last year. Jiang admitted that despite all the positive signs, problems and challenges remained in the industry. "The imbalance of regional development, insufficient use of certain species and low productivity had left many resources untapped," she said.

China's Bamboo Industry Booms for Greener Economy -- Part I (2011/01/14)
   BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- China's flourishing bamboo industry is becoming one of the pillar sectors in the country's forestry industry and also a key in the country's efforts to establish a low-carbon economy, an industry leader said in Beijing. With 5.38 million hectares of bamboo plantations and an annual increase of 100,000 hectares, China is leading the world's bamboo industry in its number of varieties, amount of bamboo reserves, as well as production output, said Jiang Zehui, co-chair of the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)'s board of trustees.

Bamboo under extinction threat (2011/01/07)
   www.nature.com It's bad news for pandas. Up to half of the world's 1,200 woody bamboo species are in danger of extinction, a UN report has revealed. Urgent action is needed to protect the plants and the species that depend on them, the study's authors conclude. Deforestation is known to be robbing many bamboo species of their native habitat. Yet the effect this is actually having on their distribution is not well understood, as many of the areas where the plants live are extremely remote.

Bamboo, a Sustainable Material for Buildings (2011/01/05)
   Better city, better life. With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, a city needs to develop in a sustainable way to ensure a better life. At the ongoing Shanghai World Expo, many pavilions are built in an environmentally friendly way and some are made out of bamboo. According to the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, or INBAR, 9 pavilions and 3 Expo utilities at the Shanghai World Expo are made of bamboo.Coosje Hoogendoorn, Director General of INBAR, says bamboo is more environmentally friendly than other wood materials.

Sliced Bamboo Veneer (2010/12/31)
   The sliced bamboo veneer is to heat press bamboo sheets into vertical bamboo blocks, cold press the bamboo blocks into bamboo beams. The thin sliced bamboo veneer maintained the natural vein of bamboo, with quality feelings of natural fresh and true elegant. It cannot only partially replace wood-based panel made of thin precious timbers and surface and decoration material of furniture, so as to make up the shortage of thin precious timbers, as well as fulfil people's will to be returning to the nature. However the bigger brittleness and lower density, easy break up, especially the small width of sliced bamboo veneer are their main shortcomings. In order to overcome these shortcomings, The big width of sliced thin bamboo veneer was made of smaller size of sliced thin bamboo veneer with adhesive bonded fabric by sticking and crosswise jointing width, not only solve its brittleness, increase tensile strength of its cross grain, but also make it into whole pieces easy to produce and transport.

Bamboo Shoots (2010/12/29)
   Bamboo shoots contain about 90% water, low in fat and calories but rich in fiber. It is also reported that bamboo shoots have cancer prevention properties. It is also effective in decreasing blood pressure, cholesterol and increasing appetite. It is now a widely consumed vegetable and is rich in phytosterols. Due to consumer demand for something new and exotic, bamboo shoots finds an important place in the traditional cuisines of the food industry.At present bamboo shoots are largely sold in the unprocessed form. They are harvested from homestead in clums and brought to the local market for sale.

Development of Bamboo Dinnerware in Sichuan Province(2010/12/24)
   Bamboo dinnerware is an industry of ecological economy, to develop bamboo industry must hold firmly the principle of ecology in advance, combine ecological, economic and social benefits. We must make strict protection, scientific management, sustainable use of bamboo resource; scientific planning and rational distribution of newly-plating bamboo forests. Neither plant bamboo in basic farmland, nor cut off the originally-growing plants.With superior natural conditions, and abundant resources, Sichuan has a long history of planting bamboo. There are 140 species of bamboo, spread across the province.

Sichuan --Home for Pandas ,also Home for Bamboo(2010/12/22)
   Sichuan has long been famous for its silverware. Chengdu silver is produced from extremely thin and fine threads of metal, which are as thin as hair. The delicate pieces are welded together and made into jewelry, wall decorations, table decorations and other pretty pieces. Silverware is widely available throughout Chengdu. Try the Arts & Crafts Service Department Store.Silk tapestry is hand made rugs which use silk and spun silk as materials. After the tapestry has been spun by machine, the pattern is delicately woven by hand.

Bamboo Fungus(2010/12/17)
    Bamboo fungus contains high protein and low fat. There are 8 kinds of amino acids that human body needs -- with a digestible rate of 80%, higher than any other vegetables, and many kinds of trace elements, mineral elements. It has some special medicinal use: it is good for your eyes and lung; it can help lose weight, reduce blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent and resist cancer; it can also strengthen your body, delay going older. Bamboo fungus is the natural antiseptic, and the soup with bamboo fungus will not go bad for a few days even in hot summer.

Bamboo Handcrafts in Sichuan, China(2010/12/15)
   Bamboo handcrafts, neither loose nor crack, and insect resistant will be durable with reasonable care. These handicrafts are full with local characters and always have been as China's foreign trade commodities and international cultural exchange exhibits, known as the "the flower of Oriental Art." The rice bowl, tableware, bamboo mosquito net weaved by The old handcraft man ¡°Zhang Zhengguo¡± obtained the silver Medal of "the Panamanian Pacific International competitions", and was named the Ministry of light industry products in 1979.

How to choose the best bamboo ?(2010/12/08)
    All of the bamboo which have been treated (exposure to heat water), are then kiln dried. The bamboo are placed in a kiln dryer at a temperature of between about 50¡æ, and about75¡æ, for period of time sufficient to reduce the moisture content in the bamboo to less than 5%. If a higher temperature is used, the bamboo may dry too quickly and undesirably warp or crack In accordance to the preferred aspects of the invention, the step of softening bamboo to remove sugar content comprising of immersing bamboo in pure water and exposing bamboo in boiling water bath at a temperature of greater than about 50¡æ for at least 60 minutes..

Eco-friendly Dishware(2010/12/06)
    Eco-friendly dishware are nature's alternative to disposables. They decompose naturally because they're made from 100% plant-derived materials. There's a compostable version of all the throwaway items we use everyday for parties, picnics and food service. The products on this page are biodegradable and compostable:Compostable To-Go Containers, Compostable Plates,and Compostable Cutlery,Compostable Sporks.

Bamboo and Plastics(2010/12/02)
    When the plastics we throw away escape from garbage trucks or landfills, they get blown into trees and waterways where they're eaten by animals that mistake them for food. In the North Pacific, a floating island of plastic waste the size of Texas has accumulated, doubling in size over the past six years. Some estimates place the load of plastic floating in that area, killing both birds and aquatic life, at 3 million tons.

Why we choose bamboo?(2010/11/30)
    Despite the problems with plastic, virtually all types can be recycled a few times before becoming too weak. However, confusing municipal recycling laws and limited access to recyclers who accept all types of plastic have kept recycling rates low; in 2006, a mere 6.9 percent of plastic garbage we generated was recycled.Many bamboos form a habit of flowering. All members of a particular species flower, produce seeds, and diesimultaneously.

Bamboo Sea in Sichuan (2010/11/25)
    There are wide varieties of plants in bamboo sea of Sichuan , within which the bamboo amounts to 58 species, such as moso bamboo, arrow bamboo, golden bamboo, mottled bamboo etc. A great diversity of exotic flowers and precious herbs widely spread in the bamboo sea, like winter sweets, peachs and plums, azleas, primroses, orchids, camellias, osmanthus, futalas.

Giant Bamboo(2010/11/20)
    The world's most important source for bamboo is in China. This is where the "giant bamboo" Phyllostachys Pubescens, also called moso, grows. This bamboo species is very suitable for decorative purposes, such as for floors and furniture, thanks to its fine structure. It has already been used for centuries as an alternative to wood for many different purposes. The Phyllostachys Pubescens grows naturally in vast primeval forests and also in managed plantations.

Tendency to Bamboo Dinnerware(2010/11/15)
    The production of bamboo products make full use of local species of bamboo resources,with good market prospects,to adapt to the changes in people's consumption concept,local features of products should be formed,to be maintained and developed.Bamboo take different diameter of the bamboo as raw material.

History of Chinese Bamboo(2010/11/05)
    Bamboo has a long history for the art of architecture. In Han Dynasty, the craftsmen use of bamboo for the construction of Ganquan Emperor Temple Palace of beautiful shapes. Bamboo is rich in the south, bamboo houses are the home for ordinary people. Dai ethnic minority in the Southwest are still living bamboo towers, banana trees with hidden bamboo towers, full of poetic.

Advantage of Moso Bamboo(2010/11/03)
    Moso bamboo is rich in potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and other nutrients. Divided in winter bamboo shoots, spring bamboo shoots, whip bamboo shoots, Moso bamboo are crisp, delicious, and good taste. Bamboo shoots can be used as seasonal vegetables, can be processed into dried, candied asparagus, fresh bamboo shoots, canned bamboo shoots to regulate the off-season vegetables and perennial food

The 11st Western China International Economy &Trade Fair (2010/10/29)
    The 11st Western China International Economy &Trade Fair was held in Chengdu city , Sichuan Province China from 22nd Oct. to 26th Oct. 2010.There are about 500 foreign companies which came to Chengdu to purchase goods.

Sustainable Bamboo(2010/10/28)
    Bamboo dinnerware are ideal replacement for their plastic or paper counterparts. After disposable use, these bamboo plates will biodegrade within 4-6 months. Perfect for caters and parties! Disposable bamboo knives, forks and spoons, sturdier, prettier and more ecologically responsible than plastic, these bamboo Forks elevate barbecues, make picnics more elegant and even adds appeal to a wedding ceremony.

Value & Exploitation of Bamboo (2010/10/21)
    In light of the current production status of the ornamental bamboo in the nation, this article describes the ornamental value of bamboo, put forward the necessity of explore ornamental bamboo in large scale and analysis its development prospects, existing problems and countermeasures.

Bamboo World(2010/10/19)
    In recent years, according to the development idea of ¡°integration of forestry and paper¡±, Sichuan has accelerated the development of bamboo industry, and initially formed the sizable and influential bamboo industry economic circle in the nation.

Bamboo Grass(2010/09/02)
    Bamboo is a kind of tall and fast-growing grass, widely spreaded in tropical, subtropical to warm temperate
zone and mostly centrolized in the East Asia, Southwest Asia, and Islands of Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
The bamboo stem, tall and straight, slim, four season green, and resistant frost and rain, are popular with
Chinese People. Bamboo is titled as one of the four gentlemen "plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum" and three friends of winter "plum, pine and bamboo". There are many Chinese scholors now and in the past love and praise bamboo.

How often do I fertilize and water my new bamboo?(2010/07/12)
    When you receive your bamboo, it should still have a moist root ball. The leaves should be green (during the Spring leaf exchange will occur so some brown leaves will be present the weeks prior to new leaves forming ). Handle your bamboo by the root ball only. Remove all packing material (tape and paper) from around the plant, being careful not to damage the root ball or any new shoots. If new shoots or foliage is broken, not to worry, the bamboo will replace these. Please plant or pot the bamboo as soon as possible. Do not let the plant dry out before planting. Do not divide your new

LFGB food grade test(2010/06/04)
    In September,2009,the enforcement of the Germany Food and Feed Legislation (LFGB) take the place of the LMGB. It is also known as the Regulation and Supervision of Food safety,Tobacco Products,Diaterysupplements,which is the most important basic legal document of food safety management of Germany and the core and guideline of other specific food hygiene legislations. In recent years,the legislation has also been revised to match European standards. The legislation have made general and fundamental regulations of food on all aspects. All kinds of food and food-related commodities must meet the basic requirements. The food contact daily products approved by the test,in accordance with the clause

Description and composition of the FDA(2010/06/02)
    U.S.Food and Drug Administration referred to as FDA.FDA is the implementing agency established in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Public Health Service (PHS) by the U.S.government.
    As a scientific authority, the role of FDA is to ensure the safety of U.S.national production or importation of food, cosmetics, drugs, biologics, medical devices and radiation products, which was the fist federal agencies of the main functions of protecting the consumers.The institution is closely related to the lives of every American citizen.In the

Science of Dishwashing(2010/05/26)
    1. Ceramic Utensils
    Ceramic Utensils contain a small amount of ingredients harmful to human health-"lead". When bought back, soaking and boiling the ceramic utensils in 4% vinegar water.
    Secondly, the newly-bought ceramic utensils should best be boiled in salt water for a while, so that it won't be easy to break in use and can extend its life.
    Cleaning ceramic utensils should first dissolve grease in hot water, then wipe with cloth, and last washing with cold water. Turn the utensils on the cabinet shelves or disinfection cabinet.

Tips for the choose and buy of kids' utensils(2010/05/26)
Source: Family
    Ever since mother adds complementary feed for her baby,she has been considering choose and buy specialized baby utensils. Wandering in the world of numerous and various baby utensils,how to choose?
The right choice of utensils has huge benefits
    1. Increasing interest in dinning
    Exquisite cartoon characters and bright color will directly stimulate the baby's visual organ and attract the baby's attention. Driven by a strong curiosity,the baby may offer to eat.

Add a set of tableware to your home(2010/05/14)
Source: www.5s5j.com
    Is a table the place to share delicious food and enjoy warm atmosphere with your family. Usually too busy to ask the tedious cooking, as the May Day Holiday is coming, we have time now. If you love your family, do a meal for them. Wacthing them eat satisfiedly, your happiness will gradually expand.
    Gorgeous tableware will change dinning into an art. Whether tasting cuisines in a romantic candlelight dinner, or enjoying tasteful tea in a leisure afternoon, or even eating meals as a daily rutine, the dishes filled with delicious food of

Bamboo products once warmed our heart(2010/05/11)
    In the traditional Chinese Culture,bamboo has the "integrity","recluse",and "gentlemen" and other cultural contents and is beloved by ancient scholars. In the Warring States period,with the emergence and development of bamboo slip culture,bamboo carving craftsmanship to decorate bamboo crafts with engraved texts and patterns have emerged. Daily products made of bamboo have also invented. China is the country earliest use bamboo.
    Sichuan Jucheng Science & Technology Developing Co. Ltd is a professional bamboo dinnerware and bamboo tableware manufacturer based in China. We are specialized in producing environmental friendly bamboo dinnerware and

Bamboo products building industry features for hotel supplies(2010/04/30)
    There is an old saying that would rather eat without meat than live without bamboo, which reflects the essential position of bamboo in people's lives. Bamboo building and bamboo decoration have become the features of our residential architecture since the ancient time. In the modern society, as economy growing, bamboo is increasingly displaying its unique advantages and playing an unparalleled role in various fields. Bamboo flooring, bamboo furniture and other items use bamboo as material are more and more favored by people of all ages. Mean while, bamboo products is booming like spring bamboo shoots in the hotel supplies industry, and gradually become the symbol of hotel featured articles.

Bamboo and Rattan Products(2010/04/28)
    Bamboo body is a treasure. As bamboo material is tough, it is a good timber for construction, paper making, weaving and carving. Bamboo shoots is fresh, tender, and crisp, which belongs to forest vegetables of high protein, low fat, high dietary fiber, rich nutrient. There is a wide range of bamboo products, applicable to agriculture, construction, paper making, textile, health care and other fields.
    Traditional bamboo products: Chinese bamboo arts and crafts are the essence of the Oriental culture, bamboo weaving crafts is a unique wonderful work

Bamboo Culture Tourism(2010/04/20)
    Bamboo distribute in the humid areas of tropical and subtropical climate in the world, mainly in Asia. There are around 70 genera and 1200 kinds of bamboo in the world.
    Bamboo resources of China are very rich, belonged to 48 genera and more than 500 species. Bamboo forest areas of the country reached over 4,200,000 hm2, mainly in southern provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Anhui, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guangdong. East China, Central China, North China have a small amount of

The analysis and countermeasures of international trade in bamboo products(2010/03/30)
    The international trade of bamboo products has become the focus of attention in the trade of agricultural and forestry products. The bamboo industry in China has well developed, and exports of bamboo products are growing, by the meantime, it also encountered with restrictions of technical barriers and green barriers. After analysis of major exported bamboo products of China involved in technical barriers and green barriers of Europe, United States, and Japan, we propose the countermeasure of implementation of international technical standards, forest certification and eco-design.

The trade surplus of import and export of wood and bamboo chopsticks (2010/03/25)
    In recent years, the import and export of disposable wood and bamboo chopsticks changed greatly, which is closely related to the stretching of economic macro-control policies of the state. However, since last year, due to the snow and ice disasters in the broad forest area in the south, as well as the financial crisis sweeping the globe in the second half, it has a huge unexpected impact on the import and export of disposable wood and bamboo chopsticks of China.

Shanghai World Expo as opportunities for the world's awareness of bamboo and rattan(2010/03/24)
    There are 44 days away from the opening of 2010 Shanghai World Expo, The model of INBAR exhibition hall of the Shanghai World Expo met Chinese and foreign media in Beijing.
    Shanghai World Expo is another world event hold by Chinese Government after Beijing Olympic Games.The INBAR international organization is invited to show experiences of its member states working together to promote the cause of the global bamboo and rattan development, poverty reduction, economic development and environmental protection in the international joint museum.The Shanghai World Expo is the opportunity for the world people and international

The Status and Prospects of R&D of Bamboo Fiber Products(2010/03/22)
    The bamboo fiber products have very broad market prospects. Recently, China has successfully developed its own bamboo fiber products, the manufacturing process fully implements green production. It is an environment-friendly fiber. Bamboo fiber has a high strength, good elasticity, easy to stain, good wear resistance and drapability, and a unique luster and silky smooth feel. Its ideal damp-proof and breathability makes it an excellent summer clothing and bedding. Its characteristics of natural anti-bacterial deodorant health care even make it worth double. The successful development of

The style tableware on the theme wedding (2010/03/19)
    Whether you are preparing a feast of dazzling array of food, or an amusing barbecue picnic in the garden, you need to select tableware supplies most matches with the theme of the wedding. The following is choosing the exquisite tableware come with the theme of your wedding.
The style tableware on the theme wedding
Modern Cocktail Wedding
    With full set of cocktail with nostalgic colors, and stylish and sexy champagne cooling tube and anti-skid tray, you would be able to offer gusts a rich cocktail banquet.

Exports of bamboo products gains bonuses(2010/03/17)
    "The export tax rebate rate of disposable bamboo chopsticks has raised 6 percentage points from 5% to 11%". "Chopsticks export industry in itself is a low profit industry, and increase of export tax rebate rate will directly reduce enterprise costs." Disposable Chopsticks Industry Association related-sources told the reporter.
    Export rebate tax has increased. Recently, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation issued a notice with effect from August 1st to adjust the export tax rebate rate for some commodities and decide to increase the export tax

Bamboo and wood dinnerware (2010/3/12)
1. Brief introduction of bamboo and wood dinnerware
    All ranges of food containers and utensils for serving and taking food, including sets of bowls, chopsticks, knives, forks, plates, trays, wooden shovels, wooden spoons, wooden scoops, and rice steams, and containers of a wide variety and different use and hand-hold utensils. Among the daily-use bamboo and wood dinnerware, chopsticks are used mostly. According to the material, bamboo and wood dinnerware can be divided into bamboo dinnerware and wood dinnerware.