Taiwan

Taiwan blends Han Chinese crafts with Austronesian Indigenous traditions, from glove puppetry to mountain weaving and temple rites.

Music & dance Textile & dress Spirituality & rites Crafts Food & cooking

Knowledge in this place

Budaixi glove puppetry

Budaixi glove puppetry

Carved wooden puppets worn on the hand act out martial tales to gong and drum music.

Indigenous banded weaving

Indigenous banded weaving

Atayal and other peoples weave ramie cloth with geometric bands on a backstrap loom.

Textile & dress

Temple paper offerings

Temple paper offerings

Folding and burning printed paper money and effigies as offerings to gods and ancestors.

Spirituality & rites

Lantern making

Lantern making

Shaping bamboo or wire frames covered in painted paper or cloth for festival lanterns.

Bubble tea making

Bubble tea making

Shaking sweetened tea with milk and chewy tapioca pearls cooked from cassava starch.