Bakan Nawy 彭秋玉 Tayal Weaver 泰雅織女 Strip ramie fiber using a bamboo device   Fish fresh from boat at Chaoyang fishing harbor 朝陽漁港 Job’s tears 薏苡 . Special gift, special as is the result of cares over 30 years  to retain natural colors! One of  彭秋玉's woven piece picked from a boxful range of  pattern, design and colors. 彭秋玉  Nan'ao Master of Tayal Weaving I joined a one and half day ramie workshop at Nan’ao organized by and located at  食藝居 . Our teacher was Ms 彭 , widely acknowledged the best Tayal weaver in the Nan’ao area. For the time we had, we enjoyed two meals of tasty local flavours, some spare time to walk around the Chaoyang 朝陽 neighbourhood, visited Ms  彭 's weaving workshop and of course purpose of the trip - Spring harvesting and treatment of ramie fiber.   食藝居  Facebook photo    (A  private company run by Mr Liao and Mr Lin) Some information on indigenous fabric ...

Tamsui 1933 Chen Chengpo The Sand Pebbles 1966 Recently me and two friends went Tamsui for an afternoon walk, we didn’t stop at many, but I soon knew I was in a comfortable position stringing along peoples connection from old and new. So here it is. Tamsui's old name Hobe 滬尾  is still used especially by the mention of Hobe Gun Fort   滬尾 炮台  - one of the marine defense structures built by the Qing dynasty for Taiwan after the Sino-French war (battle at Tamsui 1884). The location was called Hoba , meaning "streams mouth" by Ketagalan aborigines, the original settlers. RED HOUSE 紅樓 was built in late 19th century and in 1913 my great grandfather 洪以南 Hong I-nan became the second owner. The house is seen first photo in Chen Chengpo's 1933 painting. Chen is the most expensive painter in Taiwan history, his Tamsui sunset 1935 reached a historical figure sold for  HK$50.7 million in Sotheby auction 2002. And believed the most expensive paint...