In the early aughts, when Devin Mauch was a teenager, his mother gave him a pyrography kit for Christmas. It was a basic model — an electric woodburning pen and three tips, called nibs — for trying ...
Over the past 20 years, 65-year-old Xue Gailian has used pyrography-a form of intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi province-to decorate gourds and help fellow villagers make money. Two decades ago, ...