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Woman Builds a Bamboo Furniture Set from Scratch
…using hand tools and some clever building tricks
By Rain Noe - Nov 07
Talk about self-sufficiency: This handy woman in China, who apparently resides near a bamboo grove, wanted a new furniture set. So she built it herself, from scratch and with local materials, using hand tools. Between the steaming/bending tricks, the pegs and the way she forms the lining for the sofa, there are plenty of clever techniques on display:
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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I don’t think we need to qualify that she’s a woman (on the headline or otherwise), it’s pretty obvious! 🙂 She is damn talented though!
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Mary Jane pillows. Nice.
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I don't think you mean this is remarkable because she is a woman?
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Nice! This has to be the kind of thing she does though. She definitely didn't just wing it. Too many specific techniques being done with a high level of competency to think she is just "crafty".
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I haven't seen this much bamboo homeware since watching reruns of Gilligan's Island.
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She seems to do everything with that cleaver/spade thing. That same tool she uses to chop down bamboo shows up when she cooks.
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Her name is Li Ziqi (roughly pronounced Lee Tzuh-CHEE in English).
She's got a big following in China, mainly a food vlogger.Obviously she's got other noteworthy skills hidden in those rolled-up sleeves.!Report as spam
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