Japanese Bamboo Chopstick - Final Part - Japanese Traditional Art

Bamboo chopstick have been around the Japanese culture for decades and is still widely used within today.
Even though there are more alternatives span from design, prices, materials, bamboo woods is still one of many materials that remains the Japanese's favorite.
In this episode, we take a closer look on how each stopstick is carefully handle.
Urushi- a Japanese tradition substance from the Urushi tree that gives woodenware its shiny warm color, is used in this process to give the chopstick a warm and luxurious feels. Then like most Urushi lacquerware process, it is then sanded down one more time for the Urushi paint to merge onto the chopstick layer. This progress can be repeated up to a hundred times for the chopsticks to have its final color.
This step is ver important to the latter steps as it plays as a fundamental role in indicating the quality of the bamboo chopstick later on.
Follow me and join the Japanese artisan throught this episode to see how he even down the boring bamboo pieces into a piece of art.
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