To Claudia Hill and Susan Pekala, gourds are the perfect canvas for various art forms. “The neat thing about gourds is that I can do any art genre. I can do wood burning one day and do carving another ...

This is the season when autumnal displays surround us. Decorative gourds seem to appear overnight, as if beamed down from an alien spacecraft: striped, speckled, warted, and winged. Bright bursts of ...

Traditional culture enthusiasts make gourd pyrography works at the Emin County memory museum in Emin County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 13, 2025. While showcasing ...

Children view a wall featuring Chinese zodiac paper-cutting artwork at the Xibaolu culture center in Qiaozi Town of Huairou District of Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 6, 2025. Established in 2022 in ...

African gourd decorating is a centuries-old traditional art. The craft consists of turning simple gourds into intricate works of art using various techniques and materials. Not only the decorated ...

LINYI, China Mar 27, 2025 /AsiaNet-YONHAP/-- In Chinese culture, gourds (hulu) symbolize blessings and prosperity, as their name is phonetically similar to fulu. Traditionally, gourds are believed to ...

Gourd carving in Africa is more than just a craft—it's a tradition that transforms ordinary gourds into extraordinary works of art. Rooted in African culture, it goes beyond the decorative, with ...

BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Paper-cutting, a delicate art representative of China, has become a typical driver for rural vitalization in Shizhong District of Zaozhuang City in east China's ...

An inheritor carves a gourd pyrography piece featuring a dragon. [Photo by Li Dandan for chinadaily.com.cn] The studio of Si Chun'e, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the gourd ...