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Shanghai Museum of Arts & Crafts

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Do you recognize this building? It has an uncanny resemblance to The White House! It was designed in 1905 and The White House was build in 1800...

Anyway, the museum is located right next to the school so we didn't have far to go. The museum is set up to not only show off the crafts, but to also have crafters working on pieces in the museum for you to watch and ask questions. Its very neat. Above is a work of embroidery that an artist was in the middle of doing. You can see how they replicate an image, by using a grid system to ensure their embroidered image is done proportionally. Other works found in the museum were ivory, jade & wood carvings, paper cutting, jewelry, paper lanterns and ceramics. One of the crafts that I found fascinating was Ne'Qwa, or the art of painting on the inside of glass ornaments or bottles. (JP and I actually collect these types of ornaments) Through a small opening in each piece, the artist uses delicate brush strokes to hand-paint on the inside of the ornament or bottle. Actually the bottles they had done these beautiful paintings on were snuff bottles!

The ceramic tea pots were also very exquisite as well as the ivory carvings. However, all of the pieces in the museum had a price tag on them. I felt that this took away from the beautiful history of the works, and made it feel like they were peddling you their goods.
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  1. KatyMarch 8, 2010 at 9:09 PM

    How interesting that the museum resembles the White House! Looks like a fun day in deed :O)

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