Joanne Wild Wonderful experience at Design Tasmania this afternoon. Edward M J Broomhall's contribution commendable (I remember early Chickenfeed in Tasmania) & interesting. Mahdi Chandler have you been in to see the tactile & fascinating weaving yet?
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Dennis Wild We talk about the Stone age, the Bronze and Iron age, maybe we should recognise the Bamboo age, that time thousands of years ago when bamboo entered our cultures.
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Ray Norman Bamboo is that aspect of WICKERY where bamboo grows, as in Europe it is willow plus many rushes, Pacific it tends to be coconut, and pandanus and NZ NZflax etc. etc. Collectively its that era of human CULTURALproduction that predates ceramics albeit that ceramic never displaced/disrupted 'wickery'.Let's just hope that it takes root again and disrupts PLASTIC??!! ... Mary Hackett
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Dennis Wild Yes good point Ray. In the 1980's a survey showed Japan still had over 1000 bamboo products not made of plastic but with their own terms. Now theres a starting point. In the design cntre today I just saw such an inspiration of product and ingenuity.
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Dennis Wild Edward had some great examples, but I was so impressed by the range that has come out of and was produced in Launceston. Good old Willow trees, eh?
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